cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

    •  Red   ( @reddthat@reddthat.com ) English
      10•3 months ago

      Mattermost does most of the required discord features. (Pun intended)

      Is open source and is selfhost-able. I think there are some SaaS hosters if you need them too.

      •  Kaldo   ( @Kaldo@beehaw.org ) 
        8•3 months ago

        I don’t know about discord issues, the hype behind is it mostly that it’s free, very convenient, feature rich and can easily integrate bots. Its the go-to place to build communities nowadays.

        Matrix issues that I read about can be seen here https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07 . I haven’t done my own research tho so I don’t know if all of this is (still) true

        •  Cethin   ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English
          7•3 months ago

          Almost all of those issues are due to federation. Lemmy shares most of them. Considering that we’re on Lemmy, I’d say it’s mostly a non-issue for us. Maybe use something else for encryption-required communications, but other than that it sounds fine to me.

          •  Kaldo   ( @Kaldo@beehaw.org ) 
            7•3 months ago

            Lemmy is a public forum, discord servers are usually for invite-only, more closed-off communities, and we’re not talking about a lemmy replacement but rather how this is inadequate as a discord replacement.

            •  Cethin   ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English
              6•3 months ago

              That’s true, but the vast majority of the issues aren’t related to that. The majority of the issues in the article (if you read them you’d know) are about replication. They’re about whether the timing of posts, deletions, bans, and things like that possibly not being replicated perfectly across all instances. Lemmy has the same issues, but I haven’t noticed them causing problems yet. They would be even less of a problem in a private discord-like environment.

          •  tlf   ( @tlf@feddit.de ) 
            2•3 months ago

            Just because I use Lemmy doesn’t mean I was able to convince anyone of my social circle to join (with lack of content as the primary reason). Building communities requires users and a lack of those is an issue with many FOSS projects.