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A Worthy Alternative to Discord!? [Matrix] (Techsplainations) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/41552188

sorry if self promoting isnt allowed! i had a look‎ and couldnt find anything against it. i made this video for those looking to join matrix - please check it out if youre interested!

Getting sick of Discord? Wish you could take charge of‎ your digital communications? There's a good alternative, and the grass is greener on the other side...

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[–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Movim in particular is the most suited for a discord replacement in the XMPP space, as the dev implemented discord-like channels with rooms. It also has group video calls and screensharing with audio (must use a chromium browser for now to share the audio).

It is still clunky compared to Discord, but that generally applies to most of the alternatives 😅

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    i also felt like movim would be themost fitting/ feature complete and easy (just create an account and go), but for some reason i just cannot get calls to work. i’m probably doing something wrong, but considering that i’m a serial chat app tester, i expected to be able to troubleshoot it… eventually, i managed to take the movie.eu account and call via dino and monal, but that’s not as feature complete as movim. do you have any recommendations for using movim for calls?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    It took me a bit to figure out how to make a call (definitely bad UX). What got it working for me was adding the other user as a contact (beyond just messaging them, it's like a different thing), and then making sure they also added me as contact, and each person accepted that contact request, then the call button seemed to show up, and the call worked fine, even video.

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