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2025-03-21 23:19:47

Jasper Bienvenido

jasperb@mastodon.social

Why is no one talking about a #discordalternative in the #fediverse?

2025-03-22 10:03:29

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Jasper Bienvenido The only talk about a Discord "alternative" in the Fediverse comes from people who want 1:1 clones of all kinds of commercial stuff with an absolutely identical UX, but free and open-source and decentralised with ActivityPub.

Otherwise, for just simply chatting, including multi-user chatrooms, there are Matrix (iOS/Android: Element) and XMPP (iOS: Monal IM, Android: Conversations). They are not part of the Fediverse, but they are free, open-source and decentralised. And they are alternatives to iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp as well.

For discussion groups/forums, and very much in the Fediverse as in connected Mastodon, there are

Lemmy (Reddit clone)
Mbin (like Reddit, but better)
PieFed (like Reddit, but better)
Friendica (like Facebook, but better and more powerful)
Hubzilla (like Facebook, but much better and much, much more powerful)
(streams) (like Facebook, but much better and more powerful)
Forte (like Facebook, but much better and more powerful)

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Discord #DiscordAlternative #XMPP #Jabber #Matrix #Groups #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte