If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.
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This. Use Vesktop. Expand the features of Discord while outright blocking the shit.
Or better yet, host your own TeamSpeak server.
Speaking of which, are there any decent FOSS alternatives? Discord got banned in my homecountry and forcing it through VPN or proxy is a total pain in the ass. Forced my friends to move to TS as that’s what we used back in the day… like a decade ago, but maybe there’s something modern and more open nowadays?
Teamspeak doesn’t even have a fraction of Discord’s features. It’s a bad alternative.
There was a post recently on c/privacy for a self hostable (relaying) peer-to-peer web based option! Its effectively release 1.0 and has some bugs (some serious security ones at the moment), but I think it has lots of promise!!
I’ll go grab the link for the post I saw…
Are you looking for something like mumble?
Yeah, voice chat is all we need.
Get yourself a cheap root server, install murmur and never look back.
Peersuite
teamspeak 6 (beta) is pretty nice.
Sick! Are you running a Linux client? Last I checked the self-hosted V6 server binary hadn’t released, if it’s finally out I’ll drop a brick!!
no, but afaik you can join ts3 servers on ts6, also tgey have a linux client. but im currently unsure if i installed it via pacman or AUR, but you can download a binary from their website
Nah, still no v6 server. At least, not on their main download page 🥲
from what i know either Matrix or Revolt
Revolt is more closer to discord but Matrix is better cause it has ee2e, you can host your own server and my favorite feature Clients
lol this is me. I know there are easier solutions but I can’t bring myself to use any of them.
I get the message there’s an upgrade. Say I’ll do it myself, go to console.
yay -S discord (or more likely just do an overall upgrade and reboot, what they hell)
Restart discord.
Oh lord please don‘t do that. Partial upgrades are not supported. You WILL break your system sooner or later.
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Yep. Also, I did clarify that I would usually do an overall upgrade at the same time.
Browser. website. basically the same experience without weird and/or shit integration into anything, share resources with the browser that’s open anyway, works fine, and allow easy customization because it’s a webpage anyway and you get to mess with the CSS/HTML/JS if you want to.
My experience with matrix be like: (I still prefer it to discord)
check out vencord (or vesktop) just in time for discord to completely enshittify. while you’re looking, consider something like revolt chat instead?
Revolt is still extremely beta, at least last I checked it out?
Vesktop (on flatpak I believe) is just a discord wrapper with plugin support, actually a really great experience!!
Still, here’s hoping literally any FOSS discord clone gets fully off the ground sometime soon. The enshitification is so fucking real.
Oh that looks nice! I was using Dissent which is very light on resources but I kept running on a couple issues. I’ll try that.
Another one I can recommend is equibop (web version wrap of Discord) and equicord (discord client modification with vencord)
Since the latest big discord update I had issues with Vesktop, other people could only watch my streams if they were in it when I started streaming and even then it usually would break after a few minutes. But I might try it again in the next few days to see if it got fixed
Edit: I quickly checked the GitHub repo and the latest release was 2 months ago so probably not :(
Everyone here is shouting flatpak, but I’m gonna shout flatpak of Vesktop!
https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop
I like that I can make the light theme not ass
I liked this one over Vesktop (if you use Desktop discord) https://github.com/Equicord/Equicord
Love seeing me some alternatives in the wild
I’d rather just use a snap than that dumb shit.
I mean there is always the flatpak version
I must be getting old.
Yep. I didn’t realize the flatpak version worked better. I never get those manual update prompts anymore and Software Center automatically updates Discord when there are updates.
I actually use the Vesktop Flatpak. It’s got working screen sharing with audio on Wayland (not sure if the official client has implemented that yet) and it has Vencord preinstalled for plugins and themes.
Came here to say this. I was dealing with constant required .deb downloads and switched to flatpak. All the noise stopped.
Discord sure does feel like a 0.0.x version
Vesktop is nice.
In endeavour all I need to do is close it, run yay to update, open. “Lucky Day” gone
Still annoying as fuck
In all honesty I just use the browser now as that’s been the best experience with Discord for me.
Same! Never have to worry about updates anymore its great!
Yup this. Tho if matrix gets desktop streaming I’m gone.
get fluffychat :)
Element already has desktop streaming as an experimental feature. Worked fine last i tested it. Currently planning how to trick my social circle into using it.
I also want to go check out the new TeamSpeak, it’s supposed to be a decent Discord alternative - Even though Discord originally replaced it.
How did you solve the audio issue with element for Linux?
Element has audio issues on Linux? Didn’t notice it when I tested whether Matrix had what I needed (a month past). I’ll see if it screws up if I try again now.
Audio doesn’t seem to stream over Element regardless of operating system, I’m on Debian 12 and my buddies are on Windows, neither stream audio.
Also Mobile devices lack streaming out-right.
That’s weird. I just tested it with a friend (I’m on Endeavour, she’s on Win11, the server is VPS with Debian running the newest Synapse and Element-web). Audio works fine both ways with no mic config required, streaming is a little laggy when viewing the screen and stream next to each other, but that’s all.
EDIT: No, you’re right. Audio within streams seem to fail. I remember Discord having the same problem (hence why I use Vesktop), but if Windows also suffers this shortcoming? I’m pretty sure I remember it working a month ago, so there should be a bug report in Synapse (or element).
This has been an issue for over 4 years. not sure why it seems to be neglected by the maintainers/contributors.
Edit: Maybe it was patched? I don’t have the time at the moment to dive deep into this topic, will try to get back to this later today.
Edit 2: briefly looking around seems like this persisted in 2023
That’s great news. Well now discord rewards users for viewing ads, it’s looking like time to leave soon.
I fucking hate discord. Hope they ruin it.
Discord was really good in the first couple years. Way better than the alternatives in almost everything except sound quality. And getting virusses wasn’t as easy as it was on TeamSpeak3 back then.
Thats the thing…there’s no way ill convince people to get off discord now that they just got comfortable with it all.
Fr, I have tried but unfortunately my friends are mostly normal people
Yeah exactly or they just say we are trying to be superior and annoying tech autists xD
I have been using Discord since the beginning in 2015 and back then I got people to Discord because it was cheap and offered more features. Currently the only way I convince people to swtich from Discord (or from Whatsapp) is either if they are privacy focussed or the alternative is way more convient or cheaper.
Oh shit I forgot that was an option lmao. Deleting the app once I get home lol
Vesktop
When you use the Discord app, you use a browser - Chromium specifically: Discord is an electro app.
In other word, if you already run a browser that burns hundreds of megabytes of RAM, disk, and requires tons of CPU do display simplistic things, as browsers do, you might as well use it to access Discord instead of running a second insanely wasteful browser disguised as a native app.
Discord has become really annoying to use with all the ads. I confine it to my browser because I don’t trust it.
With that said, I used to run Flatpak version and it never had this issue.
Third party apps are way better than the native client
When I do, audio slowly shifts to one ear only, perhaps over 20m. Then I have to leave the channel and come back to reset it. This does not happen anywhere else, and also doesn’t happen on the desktop app, so I have to use that.
Recently, while it was “out of date” and refusing to run but not yet updated in the Arch repo, I started wondering why I don’t just use the website. I now use the website.
All that work, and it’s a web wrapper.
When l was on it I saw no point in running it outside a browser tab