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Discord isn’t exactly known for generous file-sharing limits, still, the messaging app offered a 25MB limit to free users. The company has now updated its support page to reflect the upload limit for free users has been lowered to 10MB.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Does anyone know of a Discord alternative?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Matrix is a laggy dumpsterfire. Messages take longer to send in Matrix than they do in Lemmy, and Lemmy isn't even supposed to be a real-time chat app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Try Element X if you have a mobile. It's rebuilt on the new sdk and offers a new architecture that has messages come in way faster than on Element (original)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Homeserver issue most likely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Did you blindly sign up for matrix.org?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The first time yeah, but I tried it again on another instance and it was better (at least it didn't fail to load half the time), but still super slow. The 2nd time is what I was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, pick literally any other instance. I went with Mozilla's, but there are plenty of alternatives. Or host your own!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What is the best instance with the largest user base?

Edit: and ...yes I did

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know. Why do you want a large user base?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Guessing at one reason:

It feels good to know that you’re not signing up for someone’s instance that they’re just trying out admining for the first time and maybe if they’re too busy to do the proper updates next weekend they’ll just close shop.

(And by shop I mean fantastic free volunteering effort of course!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Matrix.im maybe? I wouldn't know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My homeserver is a one-person Conduit installation, and slowness is not something I have encountered. However, in groupchats that happened to be encrypted there were moments when my messages failed to decrypt for others. That might've been due to my own carelessness with the VPS though.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of Matrix but I've heard of Revolt.

Matrix any good?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Revolt tries to be a discord clone/replacement and suffer from some of the same issues. Matrix happens to have a lot of feature in common, but is focused on privacy and security at its core.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Matrix is the closest replacement, and XMPP can replicate some functionality too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Revolt is the only feature-rich swap in option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There isn't a full alternative, but if you just want text chat with some voice chat added on there are options like Matrix.