mnemonicmonkeysMovim seems like a much better option, they just need a few weeks to get a couple of extra features out
KronusdarkTell me more?
haven’t gotten around to trying it myself. But the fact that it’s built on XMPP is cool, and I hate that that all these new clients seem to develop their own new standards rather than build off what already exists.
Sounds like movim as a project has been around for a while, but recently moved to be more discord like in intention, so it’s picked up interest there.
Movim - A GPL, federated and encrypted Text Chat & Video Call platform (w/ screenshare!) using XMPP just launched a new funding campaign to accelerate development of Discord-like features! - SLRPNK
Direct link to the funding campaign [https://movim.eu/#Fund], which is a modest sum to help accelerate the development [https://piaille.fr/@movim/116111083882867207] of Discord-like features, such as servers with rooms/spaces, as well as drop-in voice channels. It’s quite an impressive little app capable of: * Excellent text chats with file upload support, including solid optional encryption (OMEMO, based on Signal’s encryption but modified to be compatible with federation) * Group voice/video calls with screensharing (just implemented, must use a chromium based browser to screenshare an app’s audio at the moment) * A neat integrated blogging feature for communities & individuals * a fun built-in paint program to easily annotate documents or draw stuff into the chat * Full working and proven federation thanks to the XMPP back-end, which allows it to scale up reliably and easily self-host (XMPP is very lightweight). * Uses the AGPL license, ensuring that corpos won’t be able to take it over. It’ll be community-owned forever. In message-mode, it looks fairly similar to Discord: [https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/3bcc6682-3016-46a8-9866-d9427f016666.png] The dev also posted a preview of what the new spaces feature looks like in the development branch: [https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/f336d28e-495e-4b70-8d8a-aa9b3282c131.png] Unlike Signal, Movim doesn’t require a phone number email to create an account. And since it runs right in the browser, it’s extremely quick to sign up and give it a test [https://join.movim.eu/register] to see if it can meet your needs. To stay updated on its progress, the [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://slrpnk.net/c/xmpp] community pretty reliably posts news about it.
It’s based on XMPP, which means it’s open-source, federated, and has E2EE in private chats. It also supports video calls, including in groups (which most other Discord alternatives have problems with).
The main thing it’s missing right now is “places” aka what Discord calls servers/guilds. But they’re currently working to roll that feature out soon
