Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

[Guest]

This is not good.... not sure if I will continue to use Discord.

[wraithgear@lemmy.world]

what? if you have something to add please do. i do not see the benefit of federation in my voip

[toynbee@lemmy.world]

A wise coworker of mine once told me that, when it comes to what Unix commands stand for, you kind of make it up as you go.

In this case, though, looks like we were both wrong.

[cris16228@lemmy.today]

Unless they offer discord $2

If they force me to verify, I'm done

[ameancow@lemmy.world]

Like I said, they don't actually need to. You're going to have your own silent buddy watching everything you do!

[stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Any active Matrix spaces anyone can recommend to me? I joined a few from the public directory but they all seem dead.

[thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Does anyone seriously believe there’s an indie third party social media site immune to a multi-million (possibly even billion) dollar buyout offer? One that won’t go the way of TikTok and be legislatively forced into sale?

federated platforms

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

Federation is easy. BlueSky is federated, ffs. You think Jack Dorsey would be shy about selling his Twitter knock-off a second time?

[who@feddit.org]

For others who are interested:

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

[who@feddit.org]

Matrix is buggy and doesn’t scale imo,

I don't know what problems you found, but the biggest bugs I encountered in past years seem to be fixed now, at least on recent clients. (Element X is recent, and I've seen praise for FluffyChat.)

Matrix for text and Mumble for voice works well for me.

[who@feddit.org]

Careful: Discord misuses the word "server" to mean community, so a lot of Discord users here might misunderstand and think you just said the average Joe doesn't need to set up a community. (Of course, I'm sure you actually mean the average Joe doesn't need to set up his own homeserver instance, which is true.)

Discord term	Matrix term
server	space
channel	room
discord.com	homeserver (there are many)

[who@feddit.org]

My TTRPG groups use Matrix for text and Mumble for voice. This arrangement works pretty well.

We don't use video, so I can't vouch for that. The Matrix client called Element currently does it using Jitsi, and there's a new approach in development that will eventually be supported by more Matrix clients: https://call.element.io/

[thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Bluesky is poorly federated

Lemmy is excellently federated:

• Its users are split across many instances with no majority
• Lemmy, PieFed, and other instance software exists, preventing anyone from seizing control of the network software