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Also, some of these names remind me of this
I haven't tried all but I'm not super impressed with matrix so far. I tried to join three former discord groups and it looks like I have to individually join the channel equivalents and then they just show up in a list together with no server identifier so theres 3 "general" chats next to each other and I don't know which is which at a glance
I was shocked to learn that Steam group chats can be turned into pseudo-discord servers.
It’s obviously not a viable replacement for 99.999% of people but I thought it was wild it’s there today, hidden away. I wager most people had no idea (like me.)
The first time someone called me via Steam, I was really confused about what was causing the noise. I thought the game was bugged because I legitimately had no idea you could call people on Steam.
The thing that really shocked me is that you can stream to your friends list through steam.
It has weirdly good audio quality too, like noticeably better than Discord. If the Steam desktop app wasnt so heavy this could maybe be a good alternative. Maybe if they split out a separate app to use it without launching all of Steam.
My biggest gripe with it that makes it unusable as a serious replacement is that it purposely only stores conversation history for two weeks.
As for the heaviness you mentioned, it technically can be ran inside a browser but I agree a separate lightweight app would be more appealing.
I can't remember the last time i actually (non-work-related) needed to go back and look at old conversations. Anything important enough to be referenced isn't data that should be kept in a chat app
Oh thats weird I'd never used it enough to notice that. Not a great choice.
I don't know if it's a standard feature or a setting you can adjust, but my Steam chats seem to disappear after a certain amount of time. If I can't keep a history of chat logs, then I can't use Steam as a Discord replacement.
Also, I have one friend who constantly spams our chat groups with random links and videos, no context. I kind of like having channels so I can filter some of that stuff into categories and keep some of our chats from being drowned out.
Group chats seem to stay forever, I had some I made off-hand like 6 years ago and they are still there lol
Every name there seems normal, except for a stoat. Like, I'm sure there was a very heavy process going into deciding the name for the service when they realized they couldn't use Revolt anymore. But stoat just feels weird to me.
Fits the animal theme some FOSS platforms have like Lemmy (lemmings) and Mastodon, I guess
It's an animal.
Like a tiny weasel.
xmpp will rise again and take its rightful place as the decentralized messenger of the people
I would argue that the audience for Mattermost, Slack, and Zulip are pretty different from Discord.
what would be a good stack to replace discord?
teamspeak + signal(desktop client) + ???
To be a real discord replacement it needs to not be a stack. It also needs to use the server/channel model discord does, rather than rooms like signal or matrix.
matrix
Fluxer or Stoat would be your best options for a feature match ….
I wonder how long until cease and desist. Fluxer in particular is a one to one clone.
Spacebar is the same way though. Like, it's a one-to-one clone that is reverse engineering the API of the service. Their entire advertisement point is that you can take a Discord client or a Discord bot and throw it on to Spacebar without any type of modification aside from the server url
Lots of companies have a very similar Ui to Discord . Like many do to X or Facebook. I can’t imagine any lawsuit comes about
+1 for Mattermost though regardless, great app been using it for a while.