• eli@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Sucks that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all alternative, yet.

    Stoat doesn’t have enough features.

    Matrix is confusing for the masses, plus there is so much conflicting information online of what home server do you join? You shouldn’t join matrix.org’s because of admin abuse? Element clients on mobile are meh.

    TeamSpeak is a voice first platform.

    For my situation it looks like I should move my wife and I to Signal and then my friend group to Stoat, but the recent server issues(prob due to influx of new users) has caused a bit of my friends to have a sour taste out of the gate…

    Nothing is ready to replace Discord IMO. And that sucks. We need dedicated forums again, more wiki servers, and better chat applications.

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      7 days ago

      There was a post here yesterday about a matrix frontend that looks like discord called cannonball. im’a try to get my cousin and his Minecraft friends on that.

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        7 days ago

        I’ll have to try that. I saw Comet, but getting some errors and slowness compared to Element (classic)