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Discord released a video about Linux on YouTube (www.youtube.com)
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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Same. If only there were another Discord-like client that my friends were willing to use. I tried getting them onto Stoat, but I'm starting to lose faith that Stoat can become the next Discord.

[–] solxix@pawb.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Try Cinny or Sable (slightly buggier fork of Cinny with more features.) They're Matrix clients that look close enough to discord.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Or Movim, which is an XMPP client

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or just use fluxer? If you want a discord clone why the fuck are you trying to make a totally different program behave like discord. That defeats the entire purpose of matrix.

Just go use an actual clone.

[–] solxix@pawb.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Moving from discord to fluxer, stoat, etc, is like moving from shitter to bluesky. All centralized platforms will eventually go to shit.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not of they are self-hostable...? I don't know what the progress is for Fluxer self hosting, but if it comes through like they have 'promised' then I'm excited for it as the next place to go.

[–] solxix@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I looked into fluxer and it doesn't appear to be federated, meaning you would have to have an "official" fluxer account to interact with the majority of the communities.

[–] noodlesreborn@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

Federation and self-hosting are both on the roadmap.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fluxer seems to be the best candidate alternative. Currently AGPL, with plans to provide self-hosting, federation, and E2EE.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fluxer is sitting RIGHT there looking at you like yer blind. Stoat literally will never go anywhere. Its made zero fucking progress basically since day 1 is ran by idiots and smalls like a scam from a mile away.

The fact anyone has even remotely considered stoat is honestly concerning.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You forgot how stupid that name sounds, Even if they would be on par feature wise nobody would want to switch to STOAT

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Revolt was definitely a better name