Lemmy replaces Reddit, and we have Pixelfed for Instagram and Mastodon for Twitter. But what is a federated discord alternative ?
Matrix for an actually federated protocol with E2EE.
Revolt for discord-like, normie-friendly experience. No privacy features or federation as of yet.Maybe Matrix
The most obvious answer you’ll get is https://matrix.org/ which is a protocol, and the flagship app is element, but there are many more clients.
However for an almost identical experience there is also https://revolt.chat/
I haven’t tried it but someone mentioned this in another thread.
revolt isn’t federating tho
It’s not using activityPub but isn’t the principle idea kinda the same? Revolt is open source and you can host your own server, and then each user can decide to which one to subscribe to using the client.
The servers are not talking to each other per se (I don’t really see the need for that anyway in software like this), but your client will look a lot like a fediverse once you populate it with dozens of different instances of revolt. At least that was my understanding of it, correct me if im wrong.
Matrix i would think
You have Revolt for that :)
Idk if this is federated but the Matrix chat protocol usually comes up when discussing Discord alternatives
Matrix is definitely federated.
I joined kbin, mastodon, and pixelfed while deleting my Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. I’m not ready yet to give up Discord. I love activities and being able to use their built in games to play with my mom who lives far away from me.
