Just a reminder that real Discord alternatives already exist, like Stoat and Fluxer.

Admittedly voice chat has bunch of quirks still in fluxer but to me it seems the most promising. They are even discussing federated servers which would be insane.

Haven is what I landed on, self-hosted with a dev who gives a damn.

Get back in your cells, peasants

Which one do you think is best for folks who never use voice chat? I run a discord server for my friend group but we really just post text plus funny images and videos. I'd like to migrate away from this corporate nonsense.

Better IRL event features would be extra nice to have but I'm not that picky.

Yes, daddy!

If they actually do verification (which I haven't experienced yet) I'll just self host a mumble server.

Who is they? It's one guy vibe coding. Take a look at the source.

Stop promoting slop projects. Matrix exists.

Fluxer

It’s a vibe project and everyone is gushing over it. It’s crazy.

They more recently did a refact to make it not look like an LLM wrote it. In April some friends and I went through the code base and wow was it obvious.

They’re doing that? The author has a million lines of commit in one month.

Can world of Warcraft guilds please use matrix or mumble?

If you don't use voice/video/screenshare you could use IRC. If you want native inline images, you'd probably want Matrix or Haven (stay way from Fluxer and Stoat, they're bloated vibe-coded apps)

Oh, won't somebody please think of the Discord kittens?

Matrix is great, it can replace a whole lot of messaging apps, but not Discord.

Am I wrong for liking this, only this kind of negative changes will bring the masses to switch to something like matrix.

Why not?