| ▲ | jen729w 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> everyone would be better served by open platforms Oh cool, which ones?! …aaaand there's the problem. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | unethical_ban 3 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This suggests that the immediate availability of a drop-in replacement today means there is no utility in encouraging that growth. There are multiple open-source tools that do everything Discord does. There are few-to-none that offer everything Discord does, and certainly none that are centralized, network-effect-capture-ready. Short term: * Small group chats with known friends: Signal, whatsapp, IRC, Matrix * Community chat: Zulip, Rocket.chat * Community voice: Mumble, Teamspeak * Video / screen sharing and voice chat: Zoom, BigBlueButton, Jitsi I've heard about Stoat but haven't read up on it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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