Any fediverse like discord clones?
Any fediverse like discord clones?
I'm wondering if anyone made a fediverse like (aka multiple instances talking to eachother) for discord?
I know matrix exists, but it's only rooms instead of servers with channels, etc...
Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.
There's also XMPP. It's not quite the same as discord, but it's another federated chat protocol.
It's not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.
You sure? It's not identical but it's close enough. (matrix) these are spaces
To answer your question, there's no alternative besides matrix. Sorry.
Does it have voice channels?
How do you find spaces/communities to join?
This doesn't cover all rooms. However, for a bigger list use: https://matrixrooms.info/
On element:
Press "Join public room"
On cinny:
Matrix has "communities" (or "spaces"?) which can kind of work like discord servers
There are "servers" on Matrix. They are called communities
Here is the relevant part of the documentation for that: https://matrix.org/docs/communities/getting-started/
Wait, I thought those were called spaces. Have I been calling them wrong all the time?
That document seems to use communities in the normal English sense and spaces in the "collection of Matrix rooms" sense. I would say spaces are what they're called and a community is just an informal group of like-minded people who can be better-organized using spaces.
No ActivityPub federated one yet. Someone might make it someday though.
Dansup of Pixelfed and Loops fame is working on an IM app called Sup. Info seems sparse on it though.
That isn't exactly a discord clone, though. More like WhatsApp but federated. At that point I'd actually just rather use matrix than a messaging app by that cocky dev.
The AP is not really good for chats, so I would rather use the Matrix protocol that Element, for example, offers as a client.
IRC still exists
I never became a discord guy, but it seems like IRC (not federated the same way lemmy/mastodon/etc are but functionally similar) would meet the requirements.
IRC is actually somewhat federated, as one network can consist of multiple servers hosted by different people.
Revolt
Not federated
Is Revolt actually Federated? I only see sign ups for a single instance, unless I'm missing something
Which is not federated, otherwise I would recommend it immediately
While it's probably not exactly what you're looking for, I wanted to give vibe coding a try and wound up making a discord like client if you think it might be handy. It's not actually a chat server, it's just a client that uses a chat style layout to display posts under the mastodon api.