With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As you seem to appreciate, 95% of the time matrix is exactly what's needed. People seem to hate it because it's slightly different than discord, but anything that isn't discord is going to have that problem. It also has other problems, but at least it's not as bad as fucking discord.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean Stoat and Root just do not have that problem. They look like Discord.

All that we need is that but federated.

Also Matrix lacks key Discord-like features in terms of voice chat, screen sharing etc.

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you explain which features are missing for you?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No audio/screen sharing, incredibly basic community or "space" customisation tools. No roles.

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago

Audio/screensharing: But that’s just not true? Matrix has perfect voice and screen sharing. We tried it a while ago, and it worked better than, if not as good as discord.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Imo all it needs is for 2.0 to come out and for discord-like clients like cinny to mature to get to a point where it's a good discord replacement, and both of those seem pretty close to happening.