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Escape the Discord IPO (fedia.io)
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[–] daskye@fedia.io 7 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Maaybe but it's not got any way to have an encrypted DM and the development is also pretty slow. The devs don't seem interested much in supporting the self hosting aspect of it either.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

The devs don't seem interested much in supporting the self hosting aspect of it either.

And federation. Basically Discord 2.0

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

And I've had a look at the project every now and then. And all the special Discord features like voice chat (which would set it apart from the plethora of other text chat solutions with groups/channels) seem to lack features or are a bit buggy. It's a bit sad, because the project does look nice and promising. But I don't think this project is going to take off in the near future.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

What about https://spacebar.chat/ then?

[–] daskye@fedia.io 2 points 10 hours ago

This is a very early beta project and half the functionality is buggy

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Also wanted to mention this. Though their FAQ says there is no support for voice or video features. And I've seen a lot of people ask for this in a Discord alternative, since we already have a lot or text chat platforms.