• Panda@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    Would the best alternative still be something like Matrix/Element or is there something new/better out there?

    The problem with these things is that it’s really hard to convince others to move to a better platform.

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      I am never going to convince my younger family members to change platform, they literally keep discord on 24/7 with their friends and SO’s and keep lobbies open around the clock to wander in and play games and stream and thrive in the social space.

      It’s horrifically un-secure and I hate so much about the whole thing from a safety standpoint.

      I will likely kill my main account and delete all my personal data and messages, for whatever good that will do, and just make a dummy account to received messages and say hi to family. Same as I did with facebook and other social media.

      • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org
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        11 hours ago

        Teamspeak is still out there and I use it regularly. Since I’ve never cared about the posting aspect of discord they offer the exact same services.

      • sakuraba@lemmy.ml
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        6 hours ago

        SpaceHey exists, but just like the old internet moderation is a problem in that site (lots of harassing)

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        Dark Tom needs to rise to kick the internet’s ass and create a new, old internet that has no algorithms or bots.

        I guess we would need some way to confirm the users aren’t AI or bad actors so we would need to use kind of face reco- oh, I see. We’re trapped in hell.

      • kamen@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        He’d need to come up with something new. MySpace was sold some years ago.