Ie similar to how Lemmy allows users to create instances that are federated with each other, only this Discord alternative’s instances wouldn’t federate with each other.

Instead, each instance would be a complete silo, although instance owners would be given the option to potentially federate their instance outwards (ie to other federated platforms), if they wish.

Perhaps it could potentially be forked from the already existing Lemmy?

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/discord-alternative-search-10000-percent-stoat

https://www.zdnet.com/article/discord-age-verification-requirement/

  • Hawke@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 hours ago

    What are the critical features of Discord?

    • group chat with history and some degree of searchability
    • forums (but with more realtime features so it works a bit closer to a chat)
    • voice calling, including groups
    • video calling
    • screen sharing
    • mobile app with much the same features as desktop
    • web app, ditto.
    • “ownership” of specific spaces (“servers” in discord context)
    • solid permission setup for visibility (like “roles” in discord)
    • trivial startup effort

    Other less-critical but still potentially important features:

    • markdown-like formatting in posts/messages
    • grouping of channels
    • intermix of “forum” spaces with “groupchat” and “voice/video” spaces

    I don’t know of any that cover all of those, and ymmv on how critical some of these are.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Movim (an XMPP client) covers most of that. I think it’s currently working on having a collection of rooms be in one channel, but it already has group chats, group video calls, screen sharing, and permissions in groups.

      It doesn’t have forums in it, but it does allow users to have blogs.