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
Is Discord social media? Social sure, but not media really.
It always seemed to be more a live communication/chat app to me.
Many people use it as forums.
which tbh is a bad idea from the start
I didn’t say it isn’t. I much rather use traditional forums that are indexed on searchers.
Except it’s completely gated behind Discord corporate servers, unsearchable outside of Discord, and all ownership lies with… you guessed it, Discord.
But oooh aah Nitro…