It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 119 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (58 children)

Discord. It's extremely popular and has no direct alternatives (Matrix spaces thing isn't ready at all yet)

EDIT: I didn't know Revolt and Zulip existed. I'm doing a research on them now

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (12 children)

If you're talking about voice channels specifically, then there is Mumble.

If you're talking about chat rooms, old school solution is IRC and we have XMPP that works fine for most people.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

No I meant an app that looks similar and contains most of the features (servers specifically) so it's easier for not tech savvy users to get into. Someone suggested Revolt but its privacy (as in sending the data to not privacy respecting third parties) is questionable so idk if I can consider it a good enough alternative

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is a project, but it's really early in it's development. It's called Cabal. Has a nice desktop client, looks kinda like Discord. It's p2p, so no server required. BUT AGAIN, VERY EARLY IN DEVELOPMENT.

https://github.com/cabal-club

Not something you should use, but look out for how the development is going.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

There seem to be quite a few projects. It's slowing the development down. It would be better if everyone focused on one. But peer to peer is interesting. I'm wondering how much disk space it will use a day if I'm in a group with like 100k people though

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