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Discord alternatives? (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by pisturko@lemy.lol to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Discord is banned in Turkiye. The reason is some data theft, blackmail, AI montage photos, etc. As usual, our government made the easiest and most illogical move :)

I am looking for an alternative platform to talk and chat with my friends. Which platforms do you recommend?

The ones I tried:

Revolt: Voice chat is not stable. They do not accept new registrations.
Matrix: Unstable overall.
TeamSpeak: ancient interface. We can still try it.
XMPP: It has an old interface like TS. Not sure if it has voice channels.
Your recommendations?

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[–] Serpentian@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Since Discord was blocked in Russia today, everyone went to revolt, which cannot deal with so many registrations for now

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Ah okay, yeah they probably don't have the backend servers for it as it has grown slowly if at all over the past year. Revolt is meant to be run on independent self hosted backends similar to Lemmy (only without federation) but humans are going to be humans, and simply pile into the one largest, most common Revolt instance and cause huge traffic problems.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

So you're saying revolt is about to have a shitton of russian users, which means it's about to become a pro-russian war hub. You know what they say about nazis. Allow one nazi into your bar, and he'll invite his friends. Soon enough, your bar isn't a bar with a few nazis in it. It's become a nazi bar.

Same concept, different facists.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 1 month ago

Russian users who used banned platforms instead of vkontakte aren't necessarily warmongers

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your reply sounds pretty xenophobic, ngl Isn't it better for Russian people to get access to information that Russian government doesn't control?

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More like jingoistic, which is rather tiresome anymore. "Nazi" today is a virtually meaningless pejorative, and my dead grandparents are rolling in their graves having escaped real Nazis.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Literal last line of the post:

Same concept, different facists.

[–] Iapar 1 points 1 month ago

I believe revolt is self hosted so everyone can make their own bar.

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, because all Russians are Nazis apparently

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Russians are now Nazis?

Someone needs to read more history, and out down the Book of Pejoratives

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Literally the last line from the post:

Same concept, different facists.