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I hope Discord won't become the go to app for Linux gamers, when Linux becomes the go to OS for gaming ( one can dream right ! )
I mean it already is, Linux gamers play with their windows/mac friends. The alternatives aren’t as easy to use.
Based on what I understand, the feature people use Discord for is "group voice chat", but other people on this thread r saying, future Element X can do that, and Mumble can also do that.. How easy they are compared to Discord ? Idk, but I know that It literally sucks all your data, just so it can tell you : person X is playing game Y...
I just remembered Revolt aims to be an exact copy of Discord, it's Foss and chats are E2EE I guess
Group voice is discord’s biggest feature, but also general messaging (both direct/group as well as communities), video streaming, and file sharing.
Element might be a viable alternative, I’ve used it for chat where it certainly is, I haven’t used voice but I’ve heard some people say that video has a very high delay. My friends and I will often share screens for one reason or another and I’m not sure that the experience would be comparable in Element yet.
Mumble isn’t comparable because it doesn’t implement any of the same features other than voice, it doesn’t have persistant logins, etc.
Meeh, Void has it in the packages, but I don't use it, too confusing for a messaging app if you ask me.
If you haven't been forced into it by your friends/communities, then definitely avoid it if you can
Yeah, it was for a game, but I just said f it, too confusing for me.
Agreed. I keep trying to use it because that’s where Opensim’s Metaverse Alliance landed when Google Groups shut down, but it’s way too noisy. I wish they’d just settled on a proper forum site like Delphi.
dont know what happened to it, but today its a 404 page https://flathub.org/apps/com.discordapp.Discord
FYI There are also open source discord clients available:
- Discordo is a nice CLI to use Discord
- ArmCord: Full Open Source Discord client with themes, etc.
- gtkcord4 & gtkcord 3: Both are simple GTK Clients for Discord
Third party clients are against Discord’s terms of service, so use at your own risk.