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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 68 points 6 months ago (4 children)

As long as the alternative is not another chat app that is not indexable by search engines. Forums fill the role pretty well, I don't understand why devs would use Discord in the first place.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago

    Hear hear!

    Matrix is an ok alternative to Discord for what Discord does.

    Support forums are not an appropriate use of Discord, or of Matrix. Discourse is pretty great open source forum software. NodeBB forums even added ActivityPub support! I never particularly like when companies use Reddit as a primary communication method, and for the same reason I'd rather they didn't use Lemmy or Piefed, but all of these are vastly better options than Discord, Matrix, or other un-indexable private chats.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Fluxer apparently has that on their roadmap. https://blog.fluxer.app/roadmap-2026/

    As part of #3, I'd also like to add the ability to publish forums to the open web. That way, people can discover, archive, and access discussions without logging in.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    As someone who has spent the last 2+ years testing revolt/stoat, matrix with element, and teamspeak, desperately searching for any viable discord alternative, I'm very interested in this. Where did you come across it? I tried to create an account but stuck pulsing on a loading screen.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    @craigers @other_cat can I ask what was the issue with using matrix as a discord replacement? I would like to propose it to some friends, so it would be good to know if there are some fatal flaws

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    One of my friends' husbands brought it up, so good old word of mouth.

    I did notice I wasn't able to get logged in last night, though the night before I was able to make an account without issue. I wonder if they got a hug of death like Stoat did.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Also not very searchable on engines, especially due to fediverse server name differences, you can't !lemmy because many of the communities don't have Lemmy in their domain or titles or however that works. At least I have only gotten Lemmy results for like 25% of my searches.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Discord took the place of IRC. Chatlogs for IRC were rarely indexed by most channel admins until after about 2010 when projects like freenode hosted all the open source projects for the whole web.

    It was purchased by some right wing billionaire and now it is no longer.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    But in a success story for open source software, the entire community migrated from freenode to libera.chat in like 2 days.

    The way to defeat enshittification is by disallowing lock-in.

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