Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I’m on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can’t find a clear “winner”.

  • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    it’s Element/Matrix if we’re lucky. Revolt is just another Discord - surely this single company will last! With Element/Matrix being an open protocol, it won’t be a “platform” you have to leave when it goes corporate.

    • ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Sadly I found out yesterday:

      Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel.

      https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

      Many were claiming its impossible to get contributions merged as well.

      I would be happy to find out this information is wrong or outdated.

      • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Yes, which is good, but the lack of federation is a deal-breaker. It means that you either:

        1. Use their servers - This requires entrusting them with your communities, just like Discord.
        2. Host your own private instance - You can control it, but the lack of federation means it’ll be isolated from communicating with other communities. This makes it really difficult to convince people to use your self-hosted servers.

        Until Revolt adds a way for different instances to federate, Matrix is really the only other option.