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Post #1682517

2026-02-19 07:34 UTC

So seriously, what's going to replace Discord? Everyone wants to leave, but to where? And no, Matrix is not and will never be a viable alternative

Replies (9)

  • @kurcatovium@piefed.social 2026-02-19 08:21

    I've seen mentioned these: - Stoat - pretty much same UI, based in UK, not sure where they get $$ - Fluxer - looks virtually like 1:1 Discord clone, based in Sweden, has paid tier pretty much like Nitro on Discord on official server - Nerimity - a little different UI, but still very Discord-y, based in UK, sourced from donations - Movim - this one is interesting, but it's not really Discord style app; it looks more like cross breed between IM and social network (FB/X), origin in France - Strafe - looks like Discord, supposedly have e2ee - Spacebar - reverse engineered Discord, IDK about maturity of this one - Adapt - another wanna be

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  • > Matrix is not With LiveKit for calls / screen share, it is for my group. Though I'm not saying it doesn't have issues. > will never be Community-developed homeservers like continuwuity have gotten a lot of new support on the last few weeks. Clients like cinny are getting pretty close to a replacement ux wise (if you look at PR2599 on Cinny's GitHub, they are working on and will soon merge support for LiveKit in a way that is very close to voice channels). I also generally think that the only way to replace Discord as an ecosystem where you talk to many people from different communities is a federated protocol, not a bunch of new silos, one for each community.

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  • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2026-02-19 20:32

    The problem isn't that there are no alternatives. It's that there's like 50 alternatives. Centralization makes us vulnerable, but it's also super convenient. There's a reason we preferred reddit and now Lemmy instead of different forums with different logins for everything. The biggest problem with getting off Discord is fragmentation of communities.

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  • @fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-19 15:20

    IRC never left.

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  • There's Stoat (formerly Revolt) and Fluxer. Additionally, Steam has many Discord-like features in app.

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  • > And no, Matrix is not and will never be a viable alternative Why not? I've been using Matrix for a few years now. I like it, but it definitely lacks refinement and isn’t particularly user-friendly. I think of it a bit as being the Linux of messaging platforms.

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  • @fatalicus@lemmy.world 2026-02-20 10:45

    Someone has made a large spreadsheet of discord alternatives, with comparisons of features, that might help people decide: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14vicw-V9Z5m7ckuburP5wxyDIIb_fFJFEjnxxHk8qRw/edit?gid=0#gid=0

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  • @Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-20 06:19

    Fluxer. Literally just fluxer.

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  • Slack seems cool to me and my friends, is it not cool to other people?

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