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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 3 points 1 month ago

Revolt seems to be the best for now. Today they got a lot of money and I hope, they'll make their best to make it a reasonable discord alternative

[–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

self-hosting matrix is possible, and after I got it set up, it works fine. That said, push notifications were acting up a lot at first (might have been fixed by an update since that hasn't been an issue in a while), and it is rather annoying to get your desktop and mobile clients set up to not be annoying about not being verified (iOS apps seem more fiddly with verifying than Android apps in my experience)

Despite my annoyances at first, the Element client really is the best and most mature one out there, and I do recommend it. Don't bother with any of the other ones; despite what the fluffychat settings want you to think, Element is the only client that can do any kind of audio/video calling, and most of the other clients only have web apps, so there's no hope for getting push notifications on mobile.

Ultimately it has worked for me, but my demands are three humans in a voice call once a week, no screenshare (use Parsec for that), and occasional text messages.

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The Element X is supposed to be the best client, but I can’t find a way to join rooms within a chat. So for now I use Fluffy to join rooms, then back to Element X for actual usage. Kind of bothersome but I’m sure they’ll figure it out since the original Element app has the ability to join rooms.

[–] Lemmchen 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://spacebar.chat/

[–] plofi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guilded is really similar to Discord, but Roblox bought them so you need a Roblox account to use it. It's great for voice chat.

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[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Discord was based off of Slack and Microsoft Teams is a trash knockoff. All depends what you intend to use it for.

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

How about Guilded?

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