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Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I'm on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can't find a clear "winner".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Why would you down-grade from Snikket to Matrix?

If you want to skill up a bit add a Slidge.im gateway to your Snikket xmpp server to access Matrix (and Discord etc.) from there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

that is actually what I've been thinking. xmpp with encryption seems good enough for me! plus I've heard some stuff isn't encrypted in matrix, (metadata? emojis? not exactly sure)

i am heavily leaning towards scaling up to snikkets big brother, prosody.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The currently common older implementation of e2ee in xmpp has the same issue with only the message body being encrypted. There are newer specs of OMEMO that have better metadata protection, but its adoption in xmpp clients has been very slow.

Prosody is more of a sandbox, with Snikket being a preconfigured version of it, but yes running Slidge will be a bit easier with a normal Prosody server.