Discord Alternatives?

Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.ca to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org – 45 points –

Hi all, I'm looking for some Discord alternatives. All I really need is the ability to do voice calls and screen shares. It can be either via DM or channels, I only need to it be able to speak with a few friends that'd be open to moving over. I've tried Matrix/Element but there doesn't seem to be a screen share function. There's Teamspeak but I don't think that's FOSS nor does it support screen shares as well. Any other options? Basically just voice calls and screen shares is all I need, I couldn't care about channels or servers or whatever other functionalities Discord has put into their app. Thanks!

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I would recommend using Matrix. But if you really want the "Discord experience" than I would suggest Revolt.

I've never had revolt come close to working; it always felt really buggy. It also seems abandoned looking at their GitHub, there's been no activity in over 7 months.

They're still active but it's slowed down a little. Their activity is spread out across a lot of different repos so some look inactive, sort repositories by last updated at the bottom of the page here to see the current activity https://github.com/revoltchat.

edit: iirc they're also in the process of doing a major UI rewrite, not sure if certain parts of that are public yet or how far along they are on it.

I don't really understand Revolt, most people don't want to self host an entire Discord (as in, a server full of servers), most people want to self host one server.