CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Zelzius @SteffoSpieler look, at this point I'm tired of people criticizing everything that isn't a perfect discord clone. I WANT diversity, I want clients to try new things, I want interesting flawed experiments, and I don't want everyone to give up and say "wahhhh but its not discord".

Personally? I think XMPP is better! But Matrix is closer to what people expect, and of the clients available, Cinny is the most discord-like experience, so I'm recommending it for people who want an easy transition.

@crimsonfall I noticed that @sophie hosts a free Jitsi server so I will probably use that for the time being but yeah I should look into Mumble

okay I looked around a bit and if you want
- decentralized chat
- with "multi-room" spaces like discord
- and plural-friendly features like changing your nickname and avatar per-room

then the best option seems to be Cinny client for Matrix: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/

you can change your display with /myroomnick and /myroomavatar .

there's really no perfect alternatives sadly, Discord just does too many things and nobody else does ALL of them

but Matrix seems to have the best ratio of good stuff to bad stuff right now

#discord #matrix #chat #software