With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

  • snowdriftissue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    when it actually gets some uptake for more than just Fediverse instance rooms.

    Matrix has been used by FOSS projects for years

    • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Yes, but it just isn’t used in more casual ways. If I wanted to sit in Fediverse meta chatrooms and chatrooms for a bunch of clients and open source projects then Matrix is for me, but that’s not what people want out of Discord alternatives.