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Hm, at least on their homepage, they don't mention the ability to do group video calls or screen sharing, do you know if it's a complete replacement for Discord's feature set? The reason I recommend Movim specifically is that the only features its missing compared to discord are the rooms, and it cannot yet share application audio when screen sharing (but should come later).
Movim is also built on the battle proven XMPP framework, which also allows for easy self hosting and access to the wider existing XMPP community.
There are some sort of group calls, both video and audio, but it's mainly a one-man project with contributions by those savvy enough in the community.
It's essentially a mixture of features from Discord, Stoat (Revolt), and Guilded, but made in their own unique way.
It seems like a cool little project, and I appreciate that it's GPL licensed, but I'm afraid without federation, it can't quite fulfill the same role that Discord does, as they would need a sudden dramatic increase of funding to be able to support a large userbase on a centralized server, and having another centralized point of failure is really inadvisable, IMO. A big reason for Lemmy/piefed's success is distributing resource useage across multiple independent servers, and that model translates quite well to a Discord like app too.
The project is also so new (11 months old) that it hasn't had adequate time to prove that the codebase could scale to a high user count. It's in a similar position to Fluxer.app, which is another GPL Discord clone, but one that is open to adding in federation at a later date.
I also think XMPP's encryption abilities are pretty essential going forward, as governments and corporations are becoming more invasive into monitoring our communications.