Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?

  • @Halosheep@lemm.ee
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    151 day ago

    What’s a good alternative that allows easy instant message, voice and video calls, and makes it easy to group my friends by game?

    • @fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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      25 hours ago

      Matrix?

      I only put ? Because I don’t know what you mean of grouping your friends by game.

      Like a server/channel where everyone in it is both your friend and a player of that game or a contact group that manage so you can see who is that.

    • femtech
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      722 hours ago

      I have been using revolt, going to setup my own server once I get better lol, last 3 times have been a cluster fuck to get it working. I got mattermost working the first try but it’s a slack replacement not discord.

      • Aatube
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        120 hours ago

        I get that they have different target user base, but honestly, what’s the difference?

        • femtech
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          319 hours ago

          Roles and permissions. Slack and mattermost is just allowed and disallowed to each channel.

        • @Voyajer@lemmy.world
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          418 hours ago

          Yeah, if you open the friends window on the bottom it should have a group chats bar with a button to create a server and then it works like discord where you can add additional text and voice channels

      • @Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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        1424 hours ago

        Not really no. SMS is nowhere near as versatile as a service like Discord in terms of being able to meet new people or have conversations that don’t overload unrelated but potentially interested people with notifications.