Lemmy replaces Reddit, and we have Pixelfed for Instagram and Mastodon for Twitter. But what is a federated discord alternative ?
Matrix for an actually federated protocol with E2EE.
Revolt for discord-like, normie-friendly experience. No privacy features or federation as of yet.I’ts more of a protocol right ? I’ve heard about that one, but I struggled to use it though the thunderbird integrated client for matrix. I might give it another chance with a better client though
Yes, matrix is the protocol behind the tech.
As @krause said, element is the most popular client with matrix.org as the most popular instance. If you’re looking to setup your own instance, check out synapse.
You have Revolt for that :)
I haven’t tried it but someone mentioned this in another thread.
Matrix i would think
The most obvious answer you’ll get is https://matrix.org/ which is a protocol, and the flagship app is element, but there are many more clients.
However for an almost identical experience there is also https://revolt.chat/
Maybe Matrix
I joined kbin, mastodon, and pixelfed while deleting my Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. I’m not ready yet to give up Discord. I love activities and being able to use their built in games to play with my mom who lives far away from me.
Idk if this is federated but the Matrix chat protocol usually comes up when discussing Discord alternatives
revolt.chat looks interesting, although not federated.
it looks pixel perfect to discord wow
real life
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Matrix is probably the most popular federated alternative to Discord out there right now. A lot of open source projects are now adopting it as their chat platform of choice and over the past few years it’s really started to gain momentum. They have a good dev team as well.
Matrix also has really cool features like E2E encryption for chat rooms and DMs. There’s also the concept of Spaces, which are like Discord servers but arguably more flexible.
I highly recommend checking out Element, which is the flagship client made by the guys driving the Matrix protocol.
