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I had a random (probably dumb) idea: Given the whole Discord Drama going on, what if there was a Discord alternative, but in the style of Lemmy?

Ie similar to how Lemmy allows users to create instances that are federated with each other, only this Discord alternative's instances wouldn't federate with each other.

Instead, each instance would be a complete silo, although instance owners would be given the option to potentially federate their instance outwards (ie to other federated platforms), if they wish.

Perhaps it could potentially be forked from the already existing Lemmy?

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Discord's new age ID rules are driving users away - here's where they're headed

Unverified users will soon need to upload a video selfie or official ID to remove age restrictions.

^{Kyle Kucharski (ZDNET)}

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Jakeroxs

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Matrix?

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aion

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Like Matrix?

Matrix.org

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

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NightFantom

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Does matrix have decent voice chat these days?

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Ulrich

in reply to aion • 2 days ago • •

No, this sounds nothing like Matrix...

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solrize

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Sounds like irc?

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Check out matrix there's the synapse reference server but as someone who's run that for a while, I wanna run some of the rust ports for it like conduwuit or tunnwul. They seem more performant over synapse. Welcome to federation, it's a clusterfuck and it's awesome!

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Hawke

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What are the critical features of Discord?
- group chat with history and some degree of searchability
- forums (but with more realtime features so it works a bit closer to a chat)
- voice calling, including groups
- video calling
- screen sharing
- mobile app with much the same features as desktop
- web app, ditto.
- “ownership” of specific spaces (“servers” in discord context)
- solid permission setup for visibility (like “roles” in discord)
- trivial startup effort

Other less-critical but still potentially important features:
- markdown-like formatting in posts/messages
- grouping of channels
- intermix of “forum” spaces with “groupchat” and “voice/video” spaces

I don’t know of any that cover all of those, and ymmv on how critical some of these are.

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ProdigalFrog

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Movim (an XMPP client) covers most of that. I think it's currently working on having a collection of rooms be in one channel, but it already has group chats, group video calls, screen sharing, and permissions in groups.

It doesn't have forums in it, but it does allow users to have blogs.

Movim – Responsive web-based cross-platform XMPP client

Movim is a kickass distributed blogging and messaging platform built on the industry-standard XMPP protocol

^movim.eu

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ProdigalFrog

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XMPP and Deltachat are federated (though not with each other). A person can self-host an XMPP or Deltachat server that can communicate with any other XMPP or Deltachat instance.

Delta Chat: Delta Chat, decentralized secure messenger

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^delta.chat

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