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Sure, terminology is confusing here.
But this concept of communities and especially channels is exactly what I like about Discord. It's their main concept. You can't call Signal a Discord alternative either because it has call, screenshare and chats. It's just a completely different UI concept.
Right, but this does have communities - they're just called workspaces. The screenshot literally shows the equivalent to a Discord "server". You're getting confused by the correct usage of the term servers because this project doesn't have backend servers
It's P2P. How can these workspaces be equivalent to Discord servers? I'm confused. Also why are they called "workspaces"? Discord is tailored towards gamers.
From my understanding, currently the lack of a persistent superpeer makes a long-standing community unrealistic without someone remaining constantly connected, but once that's implemented it would just be a persistent workspace. Publish the link in a centralized location for your project and bam, you've got the equivalent of an official discord server.
What functionality do you think is missing?
Don't get me wrong. This software looks great in terms of features and functionality. I might give it a try. What I'm saying is that the concept is too different from Discord to be able to call it an alternative to replace Discord with. The way servers and channels in work in Discord is what makes Discord so unique and why I still use (this piece of shit corporate greedy garbage).
So it sounds like the lack of multiple text channels is the main missing feature? I haven't used it myself yet so I'm assuming those don't exist, but the concept of a server seems to be pretty one-to-one with a persistently hosted workspace.
It does have multiple text channels.
lol okay then I'm pretty mystified. Seems like all of the major features of Discord will either be directly replicated or have functional equivalents.
It's not as pretty. You have text channels, but they're literally just text channels. There's no reactions. or fun gifs. TBH It might be refreshing to not have this stuff for a bit.
I'm finding it confusing as an old fart that they can't distinguish the terminology even thou they're on the Fediverse.
Amazing 😁