abadideaFeb 12

So You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement

Things you don’t need:
- federation/distributed systems
- multiparty end-to-end encryption
- an entirely new operating system kernel specially designed to—

Things you DO need:
- a user interface that is Normal
- the ability to use languages other than English and writing systems other than Latin
- higher standards of user experience than how irc actually works in the real world
- any fucking clue how Discord works and why people use it

I have muted replies to this post due to the usual reasons

Show threadabadideaFeb 12
note that I didn’t even touch on audio/video calls and screen sharing, which are HEAVILY used features of discord, but we can start with “a solid chatroom experience” as the minimum viable replacement; if you can’t get that part right, discussing the rest with a straight face is clownshoes
Show threadPixelHamster

@0xabad1dea I'm pretty sure you do need federation.

Running a single instance would crumble under any comparable user-share that discord handles + who would finance that, in my eyes the fediverse runs on homelabbers and some donations ?

But revolt/stoat kinda sounds like what you described no ?

Feb 12 at 11:22pmWeb