Does anyone here use anything other than Discord for chatting? What exactly and how much?
“use” is the key word here, I’m interested in actual usage, not just the names of alternatives that I already know
Boosts are welcome. Thanks for answering
I replaced Discord with Fluxer and use it for all my gaming groups. Several hours per session weekly.
I’d love to use Fluxer, sadly I haven’t had luck with getting any of my friends to switch over yet.
Since I’m the GM of said pen & paper groups I didn’t give them any other choice but to move to Fluxer. ^^
Same. People just love to sit in the boiling pot.
Excuse me it’s called a hot tub. :3
Then they aren’t your friends.
Signal mostly, my circles know I’m chronically offline and thus not on big social platforms. The folks who don’t move to signal know my number and text/call me as needed which isn’t often or super sensitive because the rest of the conversation usually happens in person ¯\(ツ)/¯
ETA: I also have a couple contacts on Simplex, at their behest not mine. Not a fan of the voice/video quality to be honest but it’s fairly secure at least
I use this niche software called Lemmy, idk about you guys tho
never heard of it
I switched to matrix some years back, but it was too much upkeep for my non-tech family and friends, so we mass switched to Signal. I never used discord, but I’ll date myself by saying I’ve used IRC, MSN, and Skype in the before times.
IRC is still relevant… at least for the olds.
Most of my channels are VERY low traffic, just occasionally catching up with people I met there 20+ years ago. But, the #xkcd (Slashnet) one is pretty active if you want to jump back in and actually talk to people.
Bouncer on the home server, hexchat on the desktop. I had some mobile client but I didn’t use it frequently enough to keep around.
Matrix, Fluxer, Stoat
Fluxer
I wish the install wasn’t such a bag of supply-chain risk, though.
I’m on IRC some of the time, mostly Libera. I’ve run and used a self-hosted nextcloud chat server a little, and have fooled with Jami and Jitsi Meet. At my old work we used Slack. At another one, Hipchat. I’ve never used Discord.
Oh hi fellow libera user
XMPP
Gajim for Linux and Windows, Monocles on Android. There’s an iOS client that’s pretty good too.
Conversations app for Android : )
Signal and Matrix, never used Discord though
I don’t talk to people. People are stupid. And seeing as I’m part of the people demographic, I admit that I, too, am stupid. So don’t talk to me. /jk
Fluxer, Matrix, IRC and Telegram… each is used by different groups, so I’m stuck with all of them.
Mostly Signal with friends and Matrix for various FOSS stuff. I’ve installed Discord recently because a potential employer hosts their communication there
My college has a mandatory server that you choose your roles for every semester to enter your course chat, where you get your homework and reminders of assignments.
That sounds nightmarish.
I think its honestly a lawsuit waiting to happen. They make us use our full legal name. Someone is going to get stalked or a professor is going to start getting fresh with a student.
when i was uni they forced us to use some obscure social media specifcally for college students, people barely could connect that way. when there was still other forums around, and Y/answers.
I use Matrix with a group of friends that I persuaded to move from Discord. We still use Discord’s voice chat, but now that Matrix is starting to have something similar, I might try to get them to use Matrix for that too. So, the usage here is just general groupchat-like stuff.
I’m also in the process of moving the student council I’m in from Discord to Matrix. Once that’s up and running, it’ll cover groupchats, coordinating and announcing events, channels/rooms for various courses, and discussing/organising the various things the student council does.
We use signal with my family and my friends. But we are not actually spending much time together chatting, we rather coordinate meetups or video calls.
IRC and Matrix here. Through a self hosted ZNC and a self hosted Matrix instance with bridges.
