Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    None of those really “feel like” the things they’re replacing. I don’t really even think that should be the goal. They occupy the same space, though, and the infographic would look stupid if it showed all the options in some category, so they just picked a popular proprietary/centralized one, and a popular federated alternative in the same category. In this case discord is a popular chat app, and the most popular federa chat app afaict is matrix.

    • Skavau@piefed.social
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      3 hours ago

      True, Matrix is going to win currently by default of there being no other alternative, but it just isn’t being used in the way Discord is even if you assume a smaller scale.