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Discord is rewriting its entire desktop client in Rust with a native GPUI-based interface (dropping both Electron and React Native) (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 1 point 14 hours ago* (13 children)

If there ever is an alternative that is also free to use, has (almost) the same features or more and has a at least halfway decent UI & UX, I'm more than willing to switch. But the only software I found that was pretty much on the same level as Discord (besides popularity) got bought and killed shortly afterwards by Roblox.

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  • [–] 12 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

    Fluxer and Stoat

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago* (1 child)

    Fluxer is shit as it's not-so-Libre and also asks you to pay for stuff that should be basic and free.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    While I don't know what the restrictions are on the official fluxer instance, I do think it's worth noting that if you self host everyone on your instance gets everything for free and you can set the limits for file upload and similar stuff to whatever you want, plus self hosting was pretty easy compared to when I tried it with matrix.

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

    Last time I used Stoat it still had the old name (can't remember what it was) and it was miles behind discord. No idea how much changed since the rebranding tho.

    Fluxer on the other hand sounds pretty promising, I'll look into it.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Fluxer is primarily what I use. Iirc Stoat is more libre

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