Of course it’s an assumption, hence the “I think”. I could swap to another service easily, the only real things I want is voice, text and screen share. I don’t care about the community aspect, I’d like to see the return of forums for that! But alas, my friends use it as a community space too, participating in multiple servers, so it’s not easy to convince them to switch at all. Discord has dug it’s nails in deep, consolodating communities to a single space and it sucks.
I just don’t agree Signal/Matrix offer any sort of alternative product for the masses of Discord, but keep seeing them suggested.
My goal isn’t to ask people to swap, it’s to get myself into a position where I’m using Discord less.
Some friends will use Signal if you ask them to, and not even leave Discord. I asked all my friends to use Signal/Matrix to talk to me, and some did. This allows me to not use Discord as much.
Bit of an assumption there… I use Discord primarily for games :)
However, I hop on a mumble call for talking to friends while gaming nowadays
Of course it’s an assumption, hence the “I think”. I could swap to another service easily, the only real things I want is voice, text and screen share. I don’t care about the community aspect, I’d like to see the return of forums for that! But alas, my friends use it as a community space too, participating in multiple servers, so it’s not easy to convince them to switch at all. Discord has dug it’s nails in deep, consolodating communities to a single space and it sucks.
I just don’t agree Signal/Matrix offer any sort of alternative product for the masses of Discord, but keep seeing them suggested.
My goal isn’t to ask people to swap, it’s to get myself into a position where I’m using Discord less.
Some friends will use Signal if you ask them to, and not even leave Discord. I asked all my friends to use Signal/Matrix to talk to me, and some did. This allows me to not use Discord as much.