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Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] m_randall@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As far as self hosted I’ve heard a lot about matrix but haven’t tried it. Maybe I’ll give it a shot this weekend.

https://matrix.org/

There’s also telegram, slack, etc if you want something else commercial.

[–] Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've convinced few of my friends to use Matrix and it has been a really nice platform and now I prefer it to Discord not only because it respects user privacy but also because it doesn't have the nitro bs

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Does Matrix have video calls by now?

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

They are just using an implementation of Jitsi for the time being. Long story short: Yes, but they are still working on it.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Only if you use Element. Seems like the new Element client is making it even better, but afaik no protocol level support: https://element.io/blog/element-x-now-with-embedded-voip/

[–] m_randall@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That’s great to hear. Somehow everyone and everything is on discord now and I really am not a fan of it what with all the pop ups and flashing shiny things to buy lol.

I’ll try to get my smaller groups on matrix

[–] brian@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

you can run a bridge. I forget that friends are on discord sometimes bc it's so seamless, and they can't tell I'm not sending messages from discord either. I do have to use the discord app for voip tho

[–] Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I still have a lot of friends that just refuse to get off Discord but at least I got a few people to move like I said

[–] m_randall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Someone replied to me that you can run a bridge and never even know. I’m definitely trying it out now. Sick of all the nitro ads.