cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/41552188
sorry if self promoting isnt allowed! i had a look and couldnt find anything against it. i made this video for those looking to join matrix - please check it out if youre interested!
Getting sick of Discord? Wish you could take charge of your digital communications? There’s a good alternative, and the grass is greener on the other side…
How is “A worthy alternative to Discord?” not a drinking game already?
I’m self hosting sharkord.com for me and my buddies and its been working perfectly
Is it available on F-droid?/
They do not have a mobile app yet, I have an iPhone so I am just able to add my ‘website’ im hosting for it to homescreen and it works okay
Matrix has a lot of problems, some of them inherent to its design, including leaking metadata of encrypted messages to any server that participates in a chat room (this metadata includes the time the message was sent, size, sender and recipients of messages).
I personally think Movim is the better option that’s actively federated, while Fluxer is also promising if it successfully implements federation as well.
yes there is problems for sure, that metadata issue is one i shoulda touched on in the video. i do think things can improve though, and im a very optimistic person :P
im not sure xmpp is as ready for people coming from discord to move to it, but i also recognise that as much of a pain as its been in my experience, equally as much as with matrix, things can improve!
Movim in particular is the most suited for a discord replacement in the XMPP space, as the dev implemented discord-like channels with rooms. It also has group video calls and screensharing with audio (must use a chromium browser for now to share the audio).
I’ll be honest I made a matrix account just in case Signal gets compromised, haven’t convinced anyone else to try it so I haven’t used it at all.
totally fair! the biggest difficulty with something like this is getting people to actually use it :P
I only use it to track VERY FOSS projects like whisperfish. Which means I open it like once an month
