Not just “no” but, fuck no.
My group of friends on Discord is keeping an eye on alternatives since we all pretty much hate Discord, and can see that it’s going to get much worse. I’m sure as hell not letting Discord scan my face, that’s for sure.
Matrix/Element is a nice alternative, got some rough edges in the voice-chat that could be worked out but other than that works as intended.
They can scan my DICK!
That reminds me to start testing alternatives to Discord.
There is not a single drop in alternative currently unfortunately. I hope Revolt picks up some steam and figures out screen sharing, but more importantly, federation between self hosted instances, which is not even on their roadmap currently.
I hope to convince my group to use something like mumble + steam groups or something like that eventually especially now that Discord has ads, but for general use (such as public community servers) I think we are all doomed for many years to come.
I’m enjoying Element/matrix but we just use it for our household group chats.
I tried all of the matrix clients I could find and agree that Element is the best one so far in terms of functionality on par with Discord, plus it is one of the few that has fully functioning desktop, mobile, and web apps.
My only gripe is that they don’t allow enough user customization yet. I want to change my user color and I don’t know why the colors it chooses for you bother me so much. It’s a very petty complaint.
That and the gif support is kinda meh. I assume it will get better over time.
I can only think of Element/Matrix because Revolt doesn’t have screen-sharing, which is a huge factor in my group’s get-togethers.
Lol, I tried using Discord garbage 2 or 3 times, just can’t see why people like it. It was an awful experience every time. Convoluted, unintuitive UI, terrible software from a performance and stability standpoint. Seemed like software designed by committee with no clear objectives, and then coded by one schizophrenic dev who was just learning programming.
It’s staggering to me it’s as successful as it is.
It’s a terrible platform that snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by being the only easy to use VoIP client right as Skype was dying.
The nice thing is, the lack of defining features and it’s general awful qualities will make it easy to supplant when another true competitor emerges.
Really? You don’t see how a gamer centric software that put text and voice chat in a single solution, with the ability to join multiple servers and hot swtich between them on the fly, that let’s you start private chats in a single click and keeps your entire history for all the channels and all the private chats that you have ever been part of, that has built in streaming and screen sharing capabilities without any additional configuration, became successful?
Nobody needs “performance” (whatever that means in this context) from Discord unless you need hundreds of people in a single voice channel. Its also stable AF.
Don’t get me wrong, Discord is on a fast track to enshittification, but when it first came out, it made so many things so simple and accessible. There is still not a single solution that even comes close what you can do with Discord to this day.
I’m sorry but I have to agree with above: it’s trash
Yeah and thanks to it being popular more people are using it, even in remote classes when Covid was. And some idiots think that alternatives (that are actually better) are worse and think that matrix or revolt would become garbage like discord
Name a single better alternative, I will wait. Lmao man, Matrix can’t even load TEXT messages if there are slightly too many (yeah sure, it will eventually load if you wait long enough I guess), and it doesnt even have voice chat (not voice calls mind you, I am not calling 20 fucking people to play games with them). Revolt does not have screen sharing, nor does it have hot swappable/ joinable servers if you self host. It had like a 4 month period where voice chat didn’t even work.
The fact thay Discord, a software that historically targeted gamers at that point in time, was being used for remote classes tells you how shit everything else was / is in comparison.
Ease of use shouldn’t be confused with ease of setup.
I use discord every day but I am not a gamer so my use case is different.
Schools had to set up classes quickly and use a platform that provided the least amount of friction for students. They likely figured out most kids were familiar with discord over zoom.
I never heard of schools using Discord but it doesn’t sound like a good idea. And again, I say this as someone who likes Discord. Using an app that’s primarily for gamers and adding school to it sounds like a recipe for disaster.
I honestly don’t think many power users like discord, specially not what it has become. They are stuck in that ecosystem and the alternatives aren’t established enough to get average people to try it out/swap over.
They are testing this in the Australia and UK in response to laws based by those respective governments. Discord isn’t the one to blame.
And apparently only if you encounter flagged material or have the “enable sensitive content” option active.
Yeah but who decides what sensitive content is? Is this going to make the entire platform look like shitty tik tok videos where everyone says “f*ck” and “unalive” like some insane dystopian world
What makes YT educational but not other platforms? Sounds open to abuse.
What makes YT educational but not other platforms?
the amount of money the lawmakers get
I use Discord to talk to my parents, since I live on the opposite side of the globe from them, but the second it asks me to scan my face will be the last second I ever use it…
