Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O.
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Any suggestions for an XMPP client?
In an ideal world I want something that has Discord's "drop-in" chats where you don't need to "start a call" anywhere, you just join in. My biggest gripe with Element's voice chat
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I have a friend who is just so damn stubborn when it comes to mixing up their "comfortable" things if they aren't the one to come up with the idea
Very frustrating
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It was hard to get everyone off aim too but it happened.
Then again there is always IRC.
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XMPP, IRC....
You can try matrix if you're a masochist.
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Privacy for Me but not for Thee.
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I'm glad I deleted my account a while ago.
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Bet they'll to the way of Slack and put old messages behind a paywall
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You SHOULDN'T have gotten people off AIM. AIM was awesome!!!
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Unfortunately this is probably going to be a buy for me.
Seeing how the market reacted to the enshittification of Reddit, means that Discord probably has a lot of upside on the share price. The parallels between the two services can’t be ignored.
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I can't wait for Discord to enshittify so that lazy devs can't say "join our Discord for updates and support!" anymore.
Hate that shit.
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Start making your plans for a replacement because it will be going to shit soon.
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Now is the time for Matrix to improve usability and whatnot, because I think that's the most credible replacement.
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Simplex is cool, but it's more of a Signal/SMS replacement than Matrix. It doesn't really do rooms as you might want, and discovery of peers is pretty manual.
Cool tech, just not a Discord replacement.
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Although, I'm honestly surprised that there isn't a Fediverse equivalent/Alternative to Discord.
https://matrix.org and https://element.io are the discord equivalent.
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I really wish Matrix had been more successful, but it has some pretty core problems that prevented it from gaining more traction.
It fell into the same trap as XMPP, though perhaps even worse, with a focus more on its protocol and specification than a single unified product vision.
The reference server implementation is slow, and using a language not optimal for its purpose, with alternative server implementations left incomplete and unsupported.
It took a long time for them to figure out voice and video and for it to work well, and the "user flow" still isn't at Discord levels.I've rooted for Matrix for a long time, but as a former XMPP evangelist, to me the writing on the wall says it isn't suited for success either. I'd love to be wrong, but I don't see a way through.
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We used it literally til the servers turned off.
