Based on what I understand, the feature people use Discord for is “group voice chat”, but other people on this thread r saying, future Element X can do that, and Mumble can also do that… How easy they are compared to Discord ? Idk, but I know that It literally sucks all your data, just so it can tell you : person X is playing game Y…
I just remembered Revolt aims to be an exact copy of Discord, it’s Foss and chats are E2EE I guess
Group voice is discord’s biggest feature, but also general messaging (both direct/group as well as communities), video streaming, and file sharing.
Element might be a viable alternative, I’ve used it for chat where it certainly is, I haven’t used voice but I’ve heard some people say that video has a very high delay. My friends and I will often share screens for one reason or another and I’m not sure that the experience would be comparable in Element yet.
Mumble isn’t comparable because it doesn’t implement any of the same features other than voice, it doesn’t have persistant logins, etc.
Don’t take it for granted, technology moves fast, apps get out-featured, but whether they get mass adoption, that’s another matter
This is the Linux community, people here changed their entire OS, for various reasons or sometimes no reason at all ( just because they can ), so they’ll drop Discord in a heartbeat once another app becomes usable and as funky…
Yeah, I’m really looking forward to moving off Discord. The username change made the biggest difference to me, I lost the last of my trust in them to keep making user friendly decisions at that moment. But regardless of trust, my polycule needs a tool to differentiate headmates, and Discord is the only platform that has that so far. I know because I’ve looked. We’ll switch when a pluralkit equivalent is available
I hope Discord won’t become the go to app for Linux gamers, when Linux becomes the go to OS for gaming ( one can dream right ! )
I mean it already is, Linux gamers play with their windows/mac friends. The alternatives aren’t as easy to use.
Based on what I understand, the feature people use Discord for is “group voice chat”, but other people on this thread r saying, future Element X can do that, and Mumble can also do that… How easy they are compared to Discord ? Idk, but I know that It literally sucks all your data, just so it can tell you : person X is playing game Y…
I just remembered Revolt aims to be an exact copy of Discord, it’s Foss and chats are E2EE I guess
Group voice is discord’s biggest feature, but also general messaging (both direct/group as well as communities), video streaming, and file sharing.
Element might be a viable alternative, I’ve used it for chat where it certainly is, I haven’t used voice but I’ve heard some people say that video has a very high delay. My friends and I will often share screens for one reason or another and I’m not sure that the experience would be comparable in Element yet.
Mumble isn’t comparable because it doesn’t implement any of the same features other than voice, it doesn’t have persistant logins, etc.
Discord is going to stay king in terms of queer community as long as it’s the only chat app with Pluralkit. My polycule can’t use anything else.
Don’t take it for granted, technology moves fast, apps get out-featured, but whether they get mass adoption, that’s another matter
This is the Linux community, people here changed their entire OS, for various reasons or sometimes no reason at all ( just because they can ), so they’ll drop Discord in a heartbeat once another app becomes usable and as funky…
Yeah, I’m really looking forward to moving off Discord. The username change made the biggest difference to me, I lost the last of my trust in them to keep making user friendly decisions at that moment. But regardless of trust, my polycule needs a tool to differentiate headmates, and Discord is the only platform that has that so far. I know because I’ve looked. We’ll switch when a pluralkit equivalent is available