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RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) (thelemmy.club)
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RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Some of my friends have registered on Flux but still use discord. It's sort of just there until discord makes it unbearable for them to use but discord will never do that. They'll just slowly tighten the noose until you get comfortable.

They pay for nitro, which to me is bonkers.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    when my nitro expired, I was astonished how much basic functionality was locked behind that paywall. The vanilla experience is so unpleasant.

    Meanwhile on stoat, there is no subscription and most of discord's paid features are just... features. Sure, stoat is janky as balls, but so was discord when it was new.

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

    Genuine question: as someone who has never used Discord's Nitro, what basic functionality am I missing out on?

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

    There were 2.5 major ones for me:

    1. Higher upload limit for game clips/highlights. OBS didn't handle transcoding the stream down to a lower resolution without hitting the GPU hard enough to make the game stuttery
    2. Higher stream resolution/fps. This mattered less to me as the homies aged and played games less frequently
    3. Use the obnoxious custom emoji reactions between servers. I could upload some real egregious shit on a test server and use it in the homie server
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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    This is one of the reasons these "let's replace Discord" threads are so tricky. I use Discord basically every day, and heavily twice a week for games nights with two different groups, for 6 years. I'm in there. And I have never uploaded a clip or streamed anything, so I never considered that this might be something people want, or are using the platform for. And I've seen a few custom emoji around, but never considered using some dude's emoji in a different group's chat.

    So it's wild how different people are using it, and getting one replacement to do all of it is a big ask!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago*

    lots of customization options for both the interface and your profile, but more important to most people is being able to use emojis/stickers from your subscribed servers everywhere on the platform. This might seem petty, but there's no other software that I regularly use that requires me to pay in order to for example, change the theme of the interface.

    edit: that does not include the stuff that I knew I was paying for and was on purpose paying for, like better stream quality and larger upload size and extra shit for my server.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Exactly, right? I remember streaming on discord was a pain because of all the lag and TeamSpeak + pigdin + Overwolf was so much better.

    Now i use Legcord instead until my friends switch, which I hope is soon.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    well, better streaming was one of the things that I was knowingly and intentionally paying for nitro for.

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