Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
Why not promote matrix as a substitute?
IMHO, the best thing people can do to help mass migrations is to build out Lemmy’s moderation and administration tools as fast as possible.
They’re not great right now, and it’s really hard for Lemmy to keep up with the noise, spam, and trolls that come with a bigger community.
I fear it is like with WhatsApp : “But all my friends are on Discord so I have no choice!”.
right, I forgot about this factor
The recent headlines saying “discord will be showing ads” is just intentionally misleading. No one even bothered to read the articles. They just saw the headline that agreed “discord bad” and didn’t even question it.
Discord already has “ads” in different forms that are even more like ads than what those articles were talking about. They promote games and services as a “perk” for nitro. They also advertise all over for their paid stuff, like Nitro and profile decorations.
I don’t use Discord much, but apparently it works a lot more like IRC (real time discussion) than like Lemmy/SubLinks/PieFed (asynchronous discussion) or Mbin (asynchronous disc + microblogging).
If that’s correct, perhaps it would be simply better to code a Fediverse alternative to Discord, and make sure that it’s well integrated with Lemmy.
How would a Discord-like application integrate with Lemmy? Are chat logs federated to posts in Lemmy? Do posts in Lemmy get federated to this other chat thing? Can you just sign into chat with your Lemmy username and that’s it? Is it just a chatroom that’s associated with a community?
I feel like people here are like “everything should be federated” but sometimes I don’t really follow the thought process. I get it with Lemmy and Mastodon, but maybe someone could explain what a Federated Discord looks like.
Someone smarter than me might have better ideas, but I picture a “Fediscord” (federated Discord) working this way:
- There are multiple “Fediscord” servers. Each has its own chatrooms and users.
- Users from one server are able to interact with chatrooms of other servers, as long as they federate.
Then, when federating with Lemmy instances:
- You can use an account from one of those services to interact with the other, no further registration needed.
- You can follow “Fediscord” chatrooms from Lemmy as if they were communities. For reference, we can already follow PeerTube channels this way. (I feel like allowing the opposite would be unwise, given that Discord tends to be fast-paced; not sure though.)
- You can quote Lemmy threads/comments to discuss them in Fediscord, as if you were quoting something from another server.
- Shared DM system.
I could see the login part being nice, but I still don’t really see the value in federating chat text. Honestly that would be a negative to me, I don’t really want my chat messages copied and federated out to other servers forever. Similarly, why would I want to view a chatroom through Lemmy? Why wouldn’t I just want to go to that community through it’s app or site or whatever?
It just feels a bit like blockchain all over again. Federation and activitypub are great tools for some purposes but people seem to want to use them for everything.
Discord isn’t just “chat text”, it’s also “real time discussion”. That’s why for example you see indie game devs often creating Discord channels, to contact their userbases.
In this sense, it partially overlaps with a forum+link aggregator like Lemmy, that allows deeper and asynchronous discussion. But they’re still distinct enough so both a hypothetical “Fediscord” and Lemmy would benefit from federation:
- If discussion in a “Fediscord” server is getting a bit too deep for the medium, you can redirect people to a Lemmy thread.
- Conversely, if people just want to chitchat, in Lemmy they’ll end creating noise. They can simply do it instead in a “Fediverse” server.
- A Lemmy mod team meeting in “Fediscord” to decide how they’re going to moderate their Lemmy comm.
Nota bene: privacy is a concern and federating all content would be certainly unwise. Even across “Fediscord” servers. But some content is sensible, as long as you have a clear division between “public” and “private” rooms.
Similarly, why would I want to view a chatroom through Lemmy? Why wouldn’t I just want to go to that community through it is app or site or whatever?
CBA (can’t be arsed) is one of the main features of the race that we belong to, humankind. If you’re interested on a single “Fediscord” chatroom but can’t be arsed with the rest, you could follow it through Lemmy instead - it’ll be less optimal (F5, F5 all the time to see if there are new messages), but still useful.
It just feels a bit like blockchain all over again. Federation and activitypub are great tools for some purposes but people seem to want to use them for everything.
I get that when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, but that isn’t my case here - I genuinely think that the “Fediverse forums” (Lemmy, Kbin/Mbin, and any potential newcomer) are in a central position within the Fediverse, and should capitalise on it by federating as much as reasonably possible with other Fediverse services.
Something something IRC
Audio?
Discord isn’t really applicable to the fediverse but that doesn’t means that FOSS can’t benefit. Are there good alternatives.
Instead of the fediverse, it would be good if users switched to Revolt instead. Or maybe we can make a federated discord alternative, though Revolt was talking about federation a while ago.
Open source projects will alvause be better than closed sorce ones. If tou are giving money for closed source program, better give that money to open source project and everything will be better…
A decentralized Discord alternative… federated?!
Arweave… as an idea… or Hive/Peakd…
Memo.cash like technology.
Member.cash (defunct website… built on memo.cash tech)
Federated chats…
Session like technology…
Nostr like technologies…
It seems technically feasible.
Or like d.live (?) But only for sound (?)
Signal like technology if open source (?)
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