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crazyminner@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
We need a Federated FOSS Discord alternative built to work with the activity pub protocol.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
TheBaldness@beehaw.org 7 months ago
No we don’t. We need small instances, each with their own specific topics and communities that DO NOT share your information far and wide, like the fediverse does. I don’t think the fediverse model is the way forward.
EtzBetz@feddit.de 7 months ago
But by not sharing anything, you’d loose users who don’t want to sign up for each instance individually. I think it would be a good way to be able to sign up once on one instance and then being able to use all other instances available, but the chats etc of one instance being private to the instance itself.
TheBaldness@beehaw.org 7 months ago
True, and then there’s the other side of the coin. Federation exposes you to trolls, nazis, and doxxing.
EtzBetz@feddit.de 7 months ago
Well I guess if you wanted you could just run it defederated? And you could also build in that the instance/guild owner needs to accept joins, I guess?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Or… how about we just treat the fediverse like it is a…. public forum…. and use different tools for having more private conversations?
flashgnash@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Isn’t there already one? Thought that was what Revolt was
kib48@lemm.ee 7 months ago
not federated
flashgnash@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Is open source though, federation can always come later
That said I’m not sure why they didn’t use matrix from the start
anlumo@feddit.de 7 months ago
Federation isn’t something that can be added later. This has to be part of the protocol from the start.
jarfil@beehaw.org 7 months ago
So… Lemmy? Mastodon?
Although I think Matrix is better suited for chat, just need a client with voice/video support.
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Has anybody made a matrix app that looks like a discord clone? Than sounds easier since the federated rich text chat is already made, the current clients don’t really appeal to the discord crowd.
rnd@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Cinny is the closest to Discord in terms of UI, it even has a feature where you can show subspaces within a space as if they’re categories of a Discord server.