I'm just happy they resisted the buyout by Microsoft. > Matrix looks really close, but it needs ALOT of love. Matrix is just a protocol. Clients competing with Discord would be things like Element. https://element.io/ It's no Discord (which itself is no WLM, by the way), but I sorely hope it or something open source gets there one day. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

The beginning of enshitification of discord (while 100% expected) for some reason hits harder then any other service I've used throughout all these years. It has entirely replaced social media for me. It just felt more organic to me then anything else. So... Since I've heard about the ads coming to discord, and I have looked into alternatives. They do exist, in varying quality, and there are programs for some of... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Good time to remind everyone that an open source E2EE decentralized alternative exists for Discord in the form of https://revolt.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Yeah I've been using them for my indie conferences since 2020. I recently argued [0] that it's not the Year for Matrix, even if Discord now has ads and is doing sketchy stuff typical of enshitification. Unfortunately, I don't see their priorities going towards UX. I'm dropping them. Revolt has promise [1], at the very least as a stopgap. [0] https://youtu.be/WxAO4xDPpkg [1] https://revolt.chat. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Or if you are a dude wanting to chill, hmu at revolt.chat. Source: 6 months ago

I haven't looked in to or tried it let due to still having his migraine and nausea the new UI gave me this morning, but just ran across Revolt in another post. Source: 6 months ago