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[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

If we're swapping out discord, please just go with Zulip... It's FLOSS, and has a solid company backing it that actually cares about FLOSS (They even bought the product back, after it was sold to a company that was enshittifying it)/

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Zulip sounds neat!

Shoutout to https://revolt.chat/ as a Discord alternative too.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

Does anyone actually use it? I put my head in every few months and it’s just a bunch of graveyard servers. Very few that have any activity so far as I can tell.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

This is probably much closer to discord than Zulip is, tbh. I never knew about it previously :)

[–] lambda@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How is it feature wise? Parity with xmpp/matrix? Better?

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

Better. I'd say its fully on par with Discord, minus the dark patterns. There's a public Zulip instance where you can check it out.