Let's just all go back to mIRC please
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[Insert obligatory grumpy stares from ircII/irssi/whatever-real-IRC-client users when they hear a Windows 95 user referring to the whole service as "mIRC"]
slaps you with a large trout
Someone always has to make things kinky
Lol some of my formative programming time happened on mIRC script. I wrote a battle.net chat client in mIRC script, ironically right when blizzard decided to make it for game clients only and I never did get to faking a game's handshake. Other than that, it was basically just an IRC server itself, though I never tried connecting mIRC directly to it using the IRC side, just a mIRC script client that used the mIRC script sockets and would set up a channel window for whatever channel you went to.
I also had a DnD script where you could roll basic characters, equip weapons and armor, and attack each other, I think it was 3.5-based (or maybe just 3).
Literally exactly how I sounded begging my friends to go to Fluxer with me. But like, I don't know what else to do. 😭
What do you think of Fluxer? It seems to have more users than Stoat.
It's decent. I'm not super stoked about not having a mobile app, but the stream/screen share works, the quality seems fine, and I generally like how it works. It feels pretty much like discord (if a bit buggy at points) but with more customization.
I haven't gotten around to trying hosting my own server yet, but if it works basically like how the rest of the app works, I'll be happy.
Self-Hosting isn't really a thing yet. You theoretically can do it, but it's really hard. The team has been working on a code refractor and they intend to release proper self-hosting docs with it since it should be built with easier self-hosting in mind. They've also made progress on their mobile app; the screenshots looked quite nice. No ETA though on either thing, though.
complain about every tiny inconvenience caused by discord. all the time. do a lot of cursing while using it.
I don't know what else to do
Suck it up and mail copies of all your data directly to Mark Zuckerberg I guess.
BRB, sending Mark an individual letter of each pair of DNA per cell I have in order to make sure he gets his wish on getting a hold of my "data".
I want Zuck to eat my ass. He can eventually build it and eat it himself.
Oh Txtt, you are the weirdest socialist...
Sharkord has all of those things, and self hosting is a benefit?
It's compatible with grub? 👀
Running an OS is bloat anyway, just run everything straight off the bootloader.
Cut out all the middlemen: ditch grub completely. Build your app so it runs straight out of the MBR, or just flash it into your BIOS/UEFI.
"It's very simple... I want control over my life and a fresh hope for humanity, but if you suggest I tolerate even the TINIEST quantum of inconvenience in the process I will complain and mock until I feel better for betraying all my professed values. What, pay people for improving the thing someone already generously built for free? Why should I do that?"
I mean sometimes it's 'let me suggest this foss alternative that doesn't actually do what you need it to do' and then getting mad that the user doesn't want to use a program that doesn't do what they need it to.
Sounds like my kind of software! The thing I always hated most about Discord was that other people use it and I have to interact with them.
What do you mean you arent on grub?
Is it like Scrandle?
how else do you load your boots?
systemd boot? ;w;
after trying limine i will never use grub or systemd-boot ever again limine is perfect
Never heard about it
What's the difference?
Configured by a single incredibly simple file on your boot partition. This is my entire config
timeout: 5
/Arch Linux
protocol: linux
path: boot():/vmlinuz-linux
cmdline: root=UUID=b499449a-7c12-4d4d-a947-a6b0eda38414 rw
module_path: boot():/initramfs-linux.img
/FreeBSD
protocol: efi
path: boot():/EFI/freebsd/loader.efi
Game-Vox has been very good I found. Having some serious audio problems, but they are actively fixing it. Has pretty much all the features Discord has (with voice chat being a temporary exception for me atleast), like screensharing, channels, functioning mobile app, roles, plus the added benefits of being self-hostable and opensourced. I have found it is the most complete Discord alternative out there, rough edges included.
I feel like I've been caught by the hyperbole here, but there are discord alternatives with all those features.
Matrix using the sable client is I think the smoothest alternative so far. It's not owned by some shitty corporation, you can self host it or use one of the many existing instances, you can do voice chat and screen sharing, it's easy to add custom emojis and stickers.
Unlike most other alternatives it's federated which I think is crucial to actually scaling with more users and being resistant to abuse by a single host.
Yeah I'm not sure why many are saying matrix is bad. My friends and I have been using it for months now and its been great. Granted, its only 4 of us. A large 20 person server may not fare as well.
It's buggy, doesn't properly support screen sharing, doesn't properly support voice calls, and all the available clients are hit or miss over which features they have. I personally think it's harder to switch over from Discord to Matrix than from Reddit to Lemmy. Matrix sucks, but that's probably because it's built for businesses organizations to use, not common users like us. For that reason, I still think we need a real replacement to Discord built to be federated from the beginning.
Screen share and voice work perfectly on element x and commet. Why is yours not working?
I help moderate a medium sized server with lots of people and it's nice! It's public so this means we do have to care about moderation tools like draupnir which you probably don't need to do for your personal server (unless it's also public)
For anyone interested: such alternatives are, for example, Fluxer (easier) or I think Stoat (more control as of now).
Fluxer looked like it was ai coded before the hype for it got it enough funding for a code refactor they're doing right now. It'd be nice if it stayed around long term and became successful enough to be sustainable though.
Screen sharing support has been added to Stoat but it's disabled on the main server so you have to self host to use it, but self hosting Stoat is a pain because the main instance is hardcoded into the clients, so you have to edit their source code and recompile them. There are also no notification sounds for some reason.
I still use it though. Much better than having all my data sold. It would also be nice if they could add a Signal-like donation system where you donate some minuscule amount of money monthly and get a small badge to indicate your support. Something as simple as that motivates people to donate, no need for paywalling the most basic stuff like Fluxer and Discord.
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Havent tried Fluxer, but Stoat has no screensharing and mobile cant voice chat. Plus they dont have a google-free version for Android, so I cant use the android mobile app.
I recommend Game-Vox
Clerotri is the google free client for android (on the Stoat/Revolt wiki they have a list of 3rd party clients), and it's recommended if you're using GrapheneOS.
As for mobile voice chat, the strange thing is Clerotri has it while the official app doesn't.
Another comment mentioned the self-hosting requirement to screenshare (because of presumed costs)
so I moved to Lemmy because of the api changes... but there's no bots on Lemmy either..?
There are a few that import Reddit posts, but there are also settings to block bots; maybe yours is set to on? But I don’t ever see bots in the comments, which is fine with me.
The bots people are generally worried about don't announce themselves to be bots.
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