I did some research on #Discord alternatives, wanted to share my findings with y'all!

[earth_walker@mindly.social]

I did some research on #Discord alternatives, wanted to share my findings with y'all!

Discord Alternatives

(yurupath.net)

[mook@possum.city]

@earth_walker@mindly.social

This is a very good list, revolt looks promising

i'm gonna mention a couple things you didn't -- just for the sake of completeness, and I want to hear people's reasons for why they don't like these two: jabber and tox both have large active ecosystems and established user bases

Tox has a mixed history, as the encryption started out very weak, there was a financial fraud that happened around it in early years, and the early code was sloppy have, but they have made a lot of quiet progress over the years, they've addressed numerous vulnerabilities and are migrating their core codebase to rust, one of their best clients qtox was abandoned but recently picked back up. What makes it something to watch is that it's peer to peer and the audio/video works great, a major weakness tho is, because it's p2p you have to share IP addresses with peers, so i only use it with people i would personally know, but tor & i2p are options. qtox in particular is ridiculously easy to use and reliable https://github.com/Passw/TokTok-qTox

jabber/XMPP also has a lot of hate, but it does work, and it's easy, i know there is a lot of concern with the protocol, and the encryption used, like many people don't take OMEMO encryption seriously, i'm not qualified to have an opinion either way, but there are a few different platforms build on XMPP, movim is dope as hell, and feature wise better than fedi imo, tho it's quite unstable. Jitsi is an excellent replacement for Zoom and video calls

[earth_walker@mindly.social]

@mook those are definitely viable tools that could potentially be added to the feature subset list. I was focusing more on the drop-in replacement list but there are plenty of good text+media messaging systems and VOIP apps. Since those categories are more settled and well-understood at this point idk if there's a lot of value in going into detail in those areas within this article. But I appreciate your suggestions all the same!

[hakuso@mastodon.social]

@earth_walker
Ooh, some I didn't know.

[mook@possum.city]

@earth_walker@mindly.social right on, it's probably a good idea to not overwhelm people who are moving from discord and settle on a handful of viable alternatives that are are easy to move to, so matrix and stoat def should be at top of the list

I'm just speaking from personal experience, tox and jabber are very easy to start using with lots of fun features, but they do require some technical / security knowledge to use safely

[yuzupup@woof.tech]

@earth_walker

thank you for this!! we had not heard of fluxer and that seems as close as you can get besides not having a mobile app yet! that's probably a thing worth calling out in your blurb. they DO have a web client that has push noti support though!

[mook@possum.city]

@earth_walker@mindly.social props also to mumble, out of everything xmpp related, jitsi is most bestest, like you don't even need an account, once someone starts a video chatroom you just go to the url and you join the video chat thru the web client, perfect for activism type situations, also has a chat obvs https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/intro/

[earth_walker@mindly.social]

@mook I added Jitsi to the list, seems like it deserves some love and attention!