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Any alternatives to Discord?
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2021
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Not really a Discord alternative until they ship voice channels. Revolt chat is a straight up Discord clone, but it's not federated, they have really obfuscated the way to self host it, and their releases are way older than what the main server is running. Plus, it's developed by kids who don't give a crap about anything.
So, Matrix is the best chat out there, but it's not a Discord alternative.
The matrix client element has video and voice chats as beta feature. I use it and it works fine for me. I can absolutely recommend Element as a Discord alternative.
Element is the best one I've found, at least for DMs. I don't use servers and as such the way they work on Element still deeply confuses me, but if you work your way into it like with Lemmy it probably works.
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@scrabbone mentioned there's already a beta feature we can enable in Settings, Experimental. So, it's already working! When they ship this as a stable feature we can start recommending Matrix to everyone looking for Discord alternatives.