Clarification:
I know he’s Big Brother’s lackey, but lately I’ve been really lacking communication, apparently I’ve fallen for this hook.
I haven’t been able to find any real-life communication for years now, but I’ve been increasingly reluctant to risk communicating while Big Brother is watching. There are good alternatives to Discord?
The best chat platform is the one where the people you want to chat with are.
If you don’t have anyone specific you want to talk to and just want to join a community that shares your interests, maybe look into Matrix, which is an open and distributed protocol with many servers.
Discord is too proprietary. Try matrix chat.
If you are interested in checking out IRC, aka chat rooms using technology from the 90s, come check out ##degoogle on libera.net.
https://web.libera.chat/##degoogle
On IRC if no one answers, they might not be there, but they’ll often answer when they get back.
Another channel you might try is ##chat which is general purpose. There is also a list of channels you can search, or you can ask people for recommendations. Bestof luck out there! Come say hi!
Is most IRC’s chatroom active nowadays? I have been meaning to try other alternatives to Discord but always find them to be very hit and miss
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Bah, the young ones joining IRC through a web interface. Back in my day, we used telnet, typed the IRC commands by hand and hoped we were quick enough to reply to PING to not get kicked from the server.
Well, not really but I did it occasionally to better understand how the protocol works.
Well we still chiseled our chat messages into stone and sent them by pigeon. We usyally got pinged out before we even finished the first letter.
gotta use mIRC32 :D
I was a fan of Miranda IM because that’s what I used for everything else (ICQ, MSN, XMPP, AIM, occasionally Skype though that plugin didn’t work that well). If I remember correctly, joining multiple servers was a bit more cumbersome than with other clients but having everything in one application was amazing.
Miranda NG is still actually around and being updated! It works pretty well for IRC, XMPP, Telegram, Discord, and a few others that I haven’t tried. Still Windows only tho
Discord, to me anyways, is perhaps the pinnacle of messengers as they come. It’s more than a messenger, it is a messenger and a IRC-like client. The only problem I have had with Discord, is how janky its web-based programming is.
there are still quite a few people including me on IRC, so maybe try checking that out if it interests you. otherwise discord could be ok but some places are pretty toxic so beware.
I use Discord for a couple things that aren’t available anywhere else. It’s good for what it is. It hasn’t asked me to show ID yet. Maybe it’s obvious I’m an old guy. I dunno.
I feel like there’s an IQ cap on Discord. If you’re above average intelligence and you can’t hide it, you’re not welcome. It’s a chat program and you’re expected to use chat slang. Of course, this varies by server. I’ve been in writing servers where you can be intelligent (and it’s encouraged). I’ve also been in communities where you get warned by mods if your messages wrap on mobile (take more than 1 line). I did not stick around.
I just made my own server right when Discord came out and invited my friends. Very curated, only for us. I am also the lord of it, which is a bonus lol.
Did they take away the ability to make servers? I made one too, but I’m the only account on it. I think my wife may have joined, I dunno. She does a lot more on Discord. Her interests have communities that only exist there, or mostly exist there. I’m not really in them. I’ve dabbled but I’ve never been a full fledged member. And that’s fine. It’s anime stuff. I’m fine being a fan, a consumer, a watcher, occasionally a reader (of the manga). I’m not gonna really create for it. They do and it’s awesome. I just enjoy.
Did they take away the ability to make servers?
No no, that would be crazy. It didn’t seem to even be a Nitro feature. You can just make a server for free, still.
I don’t use it for anything else than communication while gaming.
This is the way. I always get culture shock visiting public discord servers.
This is the way.
I found a cool guy to talk to because he read my blog post about “Scaling on Linux” https://jeena.net/scaling-on-linux and he reached out via email and told me that we had similar problems. We met for a beer and some more Linux talk and we’re in contact on Matrix since then. It turned out that he hosted the FOSS for all conference last weekend so I went there too and interestingly met a lot of people from Lemmy there: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/271523
What I’m trying to say is reach out to people, it will develop into cool things over time.
