Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I’m on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can’t find a clear “winner”.

  • Forester@pawb.socialEnglish
    46·
    20 days ago

    Honestly, I am ready to go straight back to TeamSpeak.

    I miss hosting my own server and having full access and control over it

    I used to just host it on a piece of shit. 2003 Dell XP machine I put Ubuntu on

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      20 days ago

      Hell yah, TS3 crew all the way. (Or TS5 for the zoomers…)

      My nerds herd recently also set up a cluster of Matrix Synapse servers so we got our little “We have Telegram at home” set up. Getting non-tech people to accept that this is how to find me has been tricky without sounding like a digital prepper.

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        20 days ago

        : ( i was too dumb to follow the playbook correctly

        i wanna have a matrix sever!

        but I’ll use snikket for now until i skill up

        • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          20 days ago

          We believe in you, there are other write-ups and guides on how to get it working. Its was great learning expirence for VMs and Proxmox (thats what I did and it did make it harder, but I feel more confident when im cosplaying as a sys-admin)

          Guide

          This one is pretty close to whats needed, but go into it expecting each step to open a new tool/application that needs to be researched before you press enter. Also look up how to set it to a PSQL db before you start inviting users, it defaults to SQLite and that will cause problems eventually.