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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

3 [months] later they asked me if it’s ok if we talk on WhatsApp because it’s too bothersome to use two different apps.

Hey, remember in the age of about 9 different messenger protocols, when Pidgin allowed you to message people on the platform they preferred without too much fuss?

The "things we lost in the post-y2k culling of clue and mentorship" box is running out of space.

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[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Pidgin is still around, and you can even use discord with it (no voice, mind you).

I would like to bring the multi-platform client back.

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

That's not because it's scary or people can't understand how to use it, it's just bothersome.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

No, people just don't want to learn anything. They want everything to stay the same and never make compromises. No there is never a drop in one to one replacement for Discord or Windows or whatever else.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al [S] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Revolt is probably the closest fit https://revolt.chat/

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

poor name choice

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

How is it better then discord?

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Well, discording is better than revolting

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

https://revolt.chat/

Safe binaries we can validate with signed manifests, or just ISO27002-violating FlatSnappImage spooge?

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[–] disco@lemdro.id 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I heard Element just added screensharing

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[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

It's still in beta and audio appears to not always work when streaming. Though, there's recent activity on the related issues, so hopefully it gets out of beta before Discord alienates the regular user.

I tested it a few days ago and besides the audio problem it appears to work very well.

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Element with Matrix.org is getting pretty decent.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I signed up with Matrix and it was not seamless but maybe a private server would be great and they could go from there (but that feels like a long term commitment to supporting those users). I haven't really played much with it. Tried getting the folks in my discord server to give it a try but they haven't and they are tech folks. I would say it's not ready for normies, but I really wish it was.

I still have it installed on my phone, but I don't really have anywhere interesting to go. Same with Signal TBH—it's installed but no one I know uses it. Still waiting on my invite from the Secretary of Defense.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

feels like a long term commitment

says the guy who also says

my discord server

as if the two ideas aren't the same.

If you do it right, too, the private server is $0 in continuing labour.

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[–] Sina@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I believe i can self-host a matrix client but no idea how well it will work with people currently having notifications by discord bot on their phone

In my opinion discord is not yet enshittified enough for these problems to be easily solved. Give it a couple more years, if matrix gains just a bit more traction, the scaffolding to do stuff like that will be worked out.

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[–] clang@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Keet is pretty cool and (granted I am a tech person) is pretty dead simple to use.