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Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 68 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Not reviewed in this eval:

  • DeltaChat (though would likely score similar to Signal with more points for decentralization)
  • IRC
  • XMPP
  • Lemmy/PieFed/Nodebb (if he's going to include Discourse..)
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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Some other alternatives not reviewed:

    • Spacebar
    • TeamSpeak
    • Root
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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago*

    Spacebar sounded really promising when I checked them out years ago.

    The big Discord.com features currently left unimplemented or with partial implementations are: Voice/Video support (WebRTC protocol support implemented, but lacking UDP protocol implementation)

    Unfortunately, seems like it’s still not at a point where it could cover basic Discord functionality.

    Edit: I should be clear, I’m not trying to discourage it. I really hope it succeeds to the goal of parity with Discord! Love to hear from someone who has used it a bit.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it was immediately clear based on the scoring that he was super biased toward Discourse. It's not a Discord alternative, and had no place in that list at all.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I mean, it certainly is an alternative to all three morons using discord as some sort of forum for an app or similar. The same way discord is the worst for easily searchable info like a forum is basically the converse for discourse. And exactly the opposite for real time chat obviously.

    He at least mentions outright it's a forum tool. The real problem is having to include it because people misuse discord.

    Kind of like anyone using SharePoint for anything. It's not meant for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Why is SimpleX not mentioned anywhere in the article or the comments here? I thought it is similar to Discord. Am I wrong?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

    Not a single reference to Zulip either (edit: I meant in the comments on this thread)

    Personally, I really want Matrix to succed though, hope this discord diaspora (?) gives them enough push to smooth their problems.

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