I really wish there was a good competitor to Discord. I have not found one that has the same screen sharing feature. Revolt (now Stoat) gets close but lacks the screen sharing - something me and my friends use a lot. They are adding this soon so hopefully it is good
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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It's Matrix.
We don't need another competitor. We need more people using the federated option.
Same thing with alternatives to windows. We already have it, but people are too stupid to use it.
Revolt (Stoat?) is alright, but good luck getting people to join there lol, Discord is the only thing people are willing to join
I don't know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money
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Matrix or Jitsi with Lemmy or any popular forum software would be my suggestion. More secure and private but require some technical knowledge.
Matrix is an absolutely pale imitation of Discord.
Yes it is very upsetting that the most popular chat platform in the Western world is in league with Sauron, but Matrix as a replacement is a glorified ICQ client that regularly yells at you that your device is untrusted now and there's no hope of fixing it, you loser.
Yeah Matrix is horrible, I don't think it will ever catch on
I used Element and it was also an overcomplicated and cluttered UI. They should've just straight copied Discord like ReVolt/Stoat did
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Do people really have to scan an ID to us Discord?
Normally, no.
And this data breach wasn't technically to Discord either, it was to a third party company that does some part of customer support for them and the data and IDs leaked were from people who had contacted support because they were flagged underaged, and sent their ID to verify they weren't.
Which also kinda explains why they weren't deleted as they should be, they were just attatchements to support tickets, and not a "proper" verification system.
Apparently if they get flagged as underage when they aren't.
Yet another example of how requiring ID is a shit idea.
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It's a good thing I didn't give out my phone number or passport and didn't communicate via voice chat.
Sigh
More people need to use matrix and xmpp instead!
Unfortunately, stupid people need to be advertised to in order to see value in a product these days.