just like we had lemmygrad.ml as an alternative for Reddit, we need to have an alternative for discord. discord’s new policies have been supressing servers and members left and right. Now there are some options that I want to present here

Guilded: Basically very nice UI, it’s completely free most nitro features of discord are completely free on Guilded. it has got more features that discord doesn’t have the only issue is that it is gaming centric and majority communities are related to gaming

Revolt: Github open source like lemmy same features as discord, good UI, there are some features like that it lacks but upcoming and promising.

slack and matrix are trash don’t fall for it

If somehow discord server gets banned, you would be thanking me for this.

thank you for reading and upvoting

  • SpiderEyeOP
    28·
    2 years ago
    1. Matrix is slow af
    2. Matrix has less features than aforementioned alternatives, it doesn’t even have proper media sharing code, all embeds stay as it is
    3. UI is bad, comparatively
    4. matrix also asks for money for additional features which is not the case for guilded and revolt
    5. matrix is more like telegram chat than an actual server
    • Muad'DibberA
      151·
      2 years ago
      1. Matrix is fast if you self host, which is free. I have one we can use if necessary.
      2. Its actually secure, self hostable, and encrypted, unlike the others you mentioned.
      3. UI rules, and it has apps on every platform.
      4. No, 100% of its features are available if you self host: its an open source project.
      5. It has spaces, ie collections of rooms, which are the same as discords if that’s what you’re thinking of.
    • loathsome dongeaterA
      8·
      2 years ago

      What features are paywalled? Afaik synapse is completely free and open source and so is element and a ton of other clients.

      • SpiderEyeOP
        17·
        2 years ago

        iirc there are some features you will get after buying element home subscription. not to mention matrix also crashes sometimes and quite often you might have to wait for a long time

        • Arsen6331 ☭
          6·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, it is often slower than Discord. The reason for this is that it’s decentralized and encrypted. It’s slow because it’s secure. I’d rather lose a few minutes of time than have the US government spy on me.

            • loathsome dongeaterA
              11·
              2 years ago

              It’s just managed server with a bunch of bridges installed. All the bridges they use are free too. If you want you can set it up yourself without having to give money to element.

            • Arsen6331 ☭
              7·
              2 years ago

              This is just a service where they set up a server for you. If you are knowledgeable enough, you can do what I did and host the server with all the bridges yourself, which will get you all those features for free.