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Well yes, but at the same time if you had to pay a few bucks a month for Lemmy or it only worked on a special app, would you be on it?
Discord nitro is a thing. They are bleeding money like mofos. There's no more investor money, they are desperate for income.
sounds like it's time to allow third-party clients distribute the server software, shut down free "servers" and offer paid hosting and support. that would cut costs a great deal.
OK. And how many other people would be here for you to talk to?
I think there's definitely room to have an open source Discord alternative.
IRC with history and images
Voice/video chat
Wiki hosting
Have a client and website that can link right to them and you're away. But again, it's going to cost something to run it, be it hosting fees or a small server in somebody's house along with bandwidth. And Discord doesn't unless you count privacy, which most people don't.