There seems to be a serious lack of a Discord equivalent fediverse platform unlike other social media alternatives. Most of the closest options are either too overwhelming in UI/UX for majority of people coming from Discord, missing deal-breaking features like video calling or are not federated.

Could it due to some technical limitation of the ActivityPub protocol? I skimmed through its documentation and I get the impression that content may not be accommodating of instant messaging without unconventional modifications. It would also be troublesome to federate massive bunch of messages across (physical) servers in real time.

If it were truly possible to create a Discord alternative, what would it take to make it compatible with the fediverse while also ensuring it feels functional and intuitive for migrating users and not pose too much of a resource drain for self hosters?

Edit: Modified title to clarify post talking about ActivityPub in particular

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I use Conduit. There's often problems with images not being viewable or encryption being broken. And holy hell, the absolute harrassment if a session is not verified. Not to mention that the verification process never works properly.

[–] snowykitty@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Conduit isn't really actively developed anymore, and clients are the ones that care about session verification.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is actively developed. They just pushed an update a few weeks ago.

[–] snowykitty@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

fine, it has stagnated development compared to the better forks.