I would love to have an alternative to which some of the communities I am currently in can migrate. Not easy to find anything that is like Discord.
I dont know if Stoat (ex Revolt) is as good but it seems to be the most direct competitor
Slack is basically the same thing as a platform
Slack needs payment to have group calls. Also it would be nice to move something open and ideally something self-hosted.
Well don’t downvote the comment that answered your question. If you’re looking for something that’s exactly exactly exactly Z, then the answer will only ever be Z
Matrix is a possibility but its sometimes a bit of a hard sell to people.
Matrix IS NOT user friendly nor is it for breakfast
Matrix is not going to catch on. It is too intense for the average person. My friend didn’t want to bother with all the security features and couldn’t sign in without issue constantly.
That’s only really a problem if it’s end to end encrypted right?
But…it is.
Last I remember using it. it was a room setting or something. I don’t remember exactly, but it was always as pain with the friends I had it toggled on with, but otherwise fine.
Yeah but it’s on by default. And it’s not clear at all that you can turn it off or how.
Ewww. Discord? More like Discard
This is for one reason one reason only. So dear leader can find out where you live if you say something unkind about him.
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Good. Maybe we can stop using a transient digital bathroom wall as a primary system of information distribution.
So what alternative to Discord are we switching to? I’m geniunely asking because my server is an 18+ Roleplay Server and members have been asking what we’re moving to… And we don’t really have an answer for them.
I’ve been encouraging everyone to add me on Telegram so we can keep in touch, but Telegram doesn’t allow it in the ToS for you make 18+ Only Groups
Stoat (formerly revolt) would be my vote. It’s basically an open source clone of Discord. It might not have every feature you want, but the basics are all there, and the UI is pretty much indistinguishable so even non-techie friends won’t mind the switch.
Does it have screen share yet?
Teamspeak still exists
Mumble is better though
Microsoft Teams
I appreciate your sense of humor.
Personally I’m fine with the restrictions. I’m not in any age restricted servers and I don’t use the Stage feature. I already have pms restricted to mutual servers. If they want to “assume I’m 13” let them. If I can get on voice with my D&D group idgaf.
No I’m not trusting them with my info, or RL identity, but it sounds like they’re not booting people off the service for not providing it.
Its not restrictions that is the issue but the attempt to normalize handing out ID and face scans. It would have been more acceptable for them to flat out disallow restricted content than moving towards normalizing this type of entrustment of sensitive data.
The whole internet is adult-by-default, so why are we doing any sort of age verification?
But please Discord, keep ruining the platform, cause an exodus.
The problem is that there isn’t really anywhere to Exodus to. I already know people here on Lemmy are going to say Matrix but that’s just not an option. It’s trash, the protocol was designed by idiot neck beards that have never heard the term UX. Pretty much everything was done in a way that while technically speaking is efficient makes it unbelievably tedious to actually use and in some cases just outright annoying ensuring that users will never want to use it. Most recent example is forcing device verification, it is technically correct, it is better from a security standpoint it is better from a verifiability standpoint. But for the average user who could not give less of a shit about that it is nothing more than something that pisses them off and annoys them every single time they open the application because despite the fact that they should be remembering at least in my testing it almost never does and I have to put in my stupid key every single God damn time especially if I’m using it in the browser.
Teamspeakers trying to rebuild itself to be more Discord like but it’s still in early beta and not at all ready for it so that’s not an option, and everything else is pretty much either just as shit or just as likely to implement this tomorrow as Discord
Matrix is not trash, you are just not understanding it’s intended application. This ain’t it. It’s intended for commercial use. Where security is a high priority.
Someone should really let the people over at matrix.org know that, the messaging is very clearly aimed at normal users.
It’s hard to get away from consolidation. I see things like Stoat getting popular, though it looks like development slowed down?
Teamspeak works fine, most use Discord as a voice and quick text app rather than a social network anyway. And honestly the whole “forum” aspect of Discord needs to rot anyway, perhaps this would stop companies relying on Discord as their news and support outlet, because fuck that.
Ohgod its so annoying when I find some software I want to download and its only available to download from their Discord. Like what happened to having a damn website.
Except trans children. Don’t think of them. Apparently.
Because parents do not want to deal with monitoring or taking care of their children. You can limit apps etc on PCs and phones easily with parental controls and no they are not perfect but parents are lazy or too incompetent to figure it out.
Sounds like a lack of education. The focus should be there, not age verification.
You are not wrong, but then a large portion of the US glorifies being stupid and sees any sort of education effort as some sort of freedom destroying conspiracy.
Yep, huge portion. Sucks.
Hoping discord pulls a windows and enshitifies so completely that people finally abandon it
A 12 yo that I know scanned his face. It recognized it as an adult and now he can’t talk with his friends, only adults…
Cool.
The restrictions won’t change what little I use it for, but it might piss off some of my friends who are deep in the discord rabbit hole.
Fine by me.
If they did it right they would grandfather older accounts And start with new(er) accounts. But we know that is not the goal.
Yeah my account is 9 years old, doesn’t make sense unless I was 8 when I made the account.
Discord age-verification bot: “Your account is nine years old, and nine-year-olds are too young to use Discord. Terminating account.”
Discord was always an overhyped crap.
I wonder if they’ll take into account that, had I signed up at (the youngest possible age of) 13, the age of my account would then make me 21. I suppose they can’t really sell that inferred data…
The article says they may check metadata to verify users as well, so as far as I can tell, they will take that into account.
Discord always felt way overbuilt to me for a text/voice chat and screen sharing app. Same problem with Teams and others; they aren’t forums, stop trying to make them replace forums.
