My goal isn’t to ask people to swap, it’s to get myself into a position where I’m using Discord less.

Some friends will use Signal if you ask them to, and not even leave Discord. I asked all my friends to use Signal/Matrix to talk to me, and some did. This allows me to not use Discord as much.

Bit of an assumption there… I use Discord primarily for games :)

However, I hop on a mumble call for talking to friends while gaming nowadays

Hi! This post I made was to give some people the pros and cons of alternative chatting applications.

Personally, me and quite a few of my friends have a Discord server we chat on with many different channels and their respective topics. We also have Discord bots and voice channels. We recently did an experiment as a server to try branching out to various different alternative chat applications like Matrix, Signal, XMPP, and we even tried Revolt at some point.

We found that, even though Signal doesn’t have feature parity, that’s the chatting application that we all gravitated to. Some gravitated more to Matrix, which has more feature parity with Discord, but I guess we ended up not really needing all of the features that Discord offers to achieve what we wanted (a community of people who like talking to eachother). We went from a Discord server with many channels, voice channels, and bots, to a single group chat that is now feeling refreshingly active.

So when I list it here as an alternative, keep in mind that for many people, it can be if a community thinks they like it.

Either way, the point of my graphic that I made was to give people some perspective on the landscape of chatting applications that might fit their needs if they currently use Discord. For a lot of users and communities, Signal might, which is why I included it.

I personally also use Mumble to talk to my friends alongside Signal/Matrix. Mumble is great for voice chat, and since I self host it, it’s not as prone to being down in a way that I can’t investigate and fix. I totally recommend it for voice chats.

And finally, I find the Signal app perfectly serviceable and fits my needs :)

This is a very early beta project and half the functionality is buggy

Yes I did mention you need your phone number to register

It’s actually revolt.chat

Maaybe but it’s not got any way to have an encrypted DM and the development is also pretty slow. The devs don’t seem interested much in supporting the self hosting aspect of it either.

Mumble is great for voice calls! I use it for that, but it’s not amazing for chatting, which is what I use Signal or Matrix for

I meant my post

I know this isn’t DeGoogle but let’s be honest, Discord is just as bad at this point.

True but pinterest needs to ban AI

@theblips@lemm.ee True though, it is not effective? We are talking right now in a non-profit area of the internet achieved through open source contributions and community participation :)

I’d say that’s a pretty nice, effective thing that has been accomplished

@Libb@jlai.lu Well to be honest, there was a time on the internet that felt like people produced content which was not driven in any way by profit. This content was purely made to socialise with other people who spent a lot of time using the internet.

I think the internet has a lot of potential for being a place for growing ourselves individually and socially, instead of being somewhere toxic or profit driven. That’s what I mean by productive: growing ourselves and growing community. Also growing these things without some form of profiting company looming over it.

That’s how I view something like the fediverse, or how I view personal blogs like your own blog for example.

Or, should we consume more content that is conducive to being social? What type of content would that be?

I’m a vegan and love fake meat, I love tofu, I love seitan, I love beyond burger, I love mountains of veggies. I love bean burgers, veggie burgers, pakora, etc.

I do not like cauliflower in any other form than in its OG form, lmao…

@lordnikon@lemmy.world That’s intriguing! I’ll see if I like doing this in my obsidian daily note :) My daily note consists of a list of timestamps which I used a template to automatically place in my bullet pointed daily-note lists, each timestamp has a thought that I have next to it usually, so I’ll try incorporating those descriptions you’re talking about into that!

@cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world That’s awesome :) I’m happy for you - even if you don’t get to that final goal, all the steps you’re taking towards it will improve your life surely.

Also want to note for anyone reading this that you too can live slowly in many ways even if you’re not doing well financially.

@Adudethatis@lemmy.ca I’ve been taking notes for almost everything I do, and writing essays, todo’s, thoughts I have in obsidian and linking it all together. So for example if I’m reading a book, I’ll make a note for that book and take little notes whenever I have some fleeting thought about it. This helps me have like, something beside me whenever I’m doing something which helps me slow down my actions and think slower.

Also I’ve recently been liking the concept of a “forever world” in Minecraft - a world you play in forever, forever cultivating what you’ve made and shaping it over years. I play for 20 minutes a day but sometimes I even play for a couple of hours. While playing I play slowly, try not to sprint so I can take in the creations I’ve made and the environment. Also incorporating the notes into this (mostly just logs about thoughts I have while playing).

But yeah the essence of all this is just to not rush the things I’m doing like I have a bad habit of doing. I often rush things and then don’t even complete the thing that I was doing anyway. Living more slowly allows me to do things more intentionally and just go at my own pace regardless of whether or not I’m gonna “complete” something.

@grrgyle@slrpnk.net True. Even like, 20 minutes a day in your forever world is really rewarding! I walk around, shape the world in some kind of way, might even stay in the game for a couple hours depending on how much fun I’m having, and log out.

@Pamasich@kbin.earth Since you mentioned Terraria and Minecraft, I’ll put Core Keeper on the table too! :) It’s fantastic, especially Co-op