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’ve never really been a major chat user. I think that non-real-time forum-style systems like Usenet, Reddit, or the Threadiverse tend to lead to more interesting interaction.
The chat system that I’ve probably used the most has been phone group text messaging, with IRC or XMPP group chats coming in after that. One place I worked used AIM for a while, and people would use that to coordinate stuff or do water-cooler talk.
If I were going to pick one to use, it’d probably be XMPP, assuming that I could get everyone else to use it. Federated, variety of good native clients for different platforms, support for E2E encryption.
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 Matrix through FluffyChat more than I use Discord.
Telegram was growing the last time family/friends were looking for a change, so I have my tiny group there. It’s actually pretty good for our needs.
https://mony.world/ which uses federated Harmony - essentially a federated Discord clone - has been spun up. Feel free to seek alternative instances, I only know of that one.
I only use discord for voice chat, when I game with friends every two weeks. Signal otherwise, no WhatsApp installed.
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.
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.
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
Fluxer, Matrix, IRC and Telegram… each is used by different groups, so I’m stuck with all of them.
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.
I only use IRC regularly – every other day or so to chat with a few small communities I’m part of. I enjoy hexchat even though it is EOL. There is a spiritual successor called ZoiteChat, but i haven’t felt the need to change.
The others i only use if necessary, not often.
I’m using Sable which is a Matrix client and so far it has been great. I haven’t used discord in over a year now.
IRC and Matrix here. Through a self hosted ZNC and a self hosted Matrix instance with bridges.
I’m not spazzy enough to force others onto whichever platform I have deemed to be superior.
So I use whatever other people are using, which is normally discord or telegram. In the past I used Team Speak and Messenger for a while. I just rotate through profiles and practice other forms of digital hygiene
We use Fluxor with a bot that bridges our Discord (SFW) and Matrix (NSFW) servers. We’re hoping to migrate fully to Fluxor, but for now we are bridging the gaps.
