@lina I think “porting the discord experience” is exactly the issue here. People have suggested matrix to me as an alternative multiple times. The issue is that I don’t think my “non technical” friends and community would enjoy it as much. It’s too complicated for them - and too different. I’m currently checking Stoat since it seems almost like a clone, I’m just a bit worried about how scalable it actually is.

@lina I've asked myself for years if revolt (now stoat) could be molded into something like that. People have been pushing them for *ages* to "add federation" but the limiting factor has always been that the team is a tiny group of volunteers.

@lina sounds nice. I would be happier if devs would avoid closed/unsearchable discord servers for issue tracking, FAQ, and documentation discovery.

But an open platform for text/voice chat with same features would be nice

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I'd add integrated Jitsi Meet (or VoIP software on par with it and Discord, with screenshare, video, etc.) to that idea.

Not everyone needs it, of course, so it may be optional, but in my expirience it's the hardest to replace part of Discord.

@lina Quassel tried to fill that hole.

@lina I agree with you in spirit, but I don’t think I could ever use IRC again with all its janky weirdness (I mean, usernames!).

But a spiritual successor to IRC would make sense.

Just my two random small coins :)

@lina that won't happen because discord probably won't allow that