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In your opinion, what is the best "Discord like" app for students and teachers? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Revolt is the most Discord-like FOSS chat app; it's very easy to use and customizable. Rocket.chat and Mattermost do similar things and are more oriented toward organizations (the Slack/Teams Classic use case).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I second revolt Been using it for a few months now, it really feels like Discord

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A Matrix server with a nice web based client, hosted on premise. People are then free to choose the mobile or desktop apps they want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Matrix is missing the entire voice chat, video chat, and streaming aspect of Discord.

It has meetings and calls, but those are much less convenient to use compared to persistent voice channels, and the streaming had a lot of latency when I tried it last.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they change that? Check Elements Nightly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Nightlys are not things you should recommend for production use. Especially for (potentially) non tech savvy teachers and students.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Mattermost, it might not be the best feature-wise, but it's open source, and a university can host it's own server with SSO

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Matrix / element with the jitsi voice rooms, has Discovery just like discord. You can see that people are talking in a room, and you can join the room and join the conversation. You don't have to click on to a voice room with nobody in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

slack for teacher to teacher mabye

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't have experience using it, but it is worth looking at BigBlueButton.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do have experience using it, and it's not worth looking at BigBlueButton.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing. Anything in particular that was broken, or just a bad experience overall? I thought about spinning it up for family group video chats, but I guess I can cross that one off the list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Bad experience overall - slow and laggy. We did two lessons on it for a course and then swapped to something else (I forget what)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nextcloud Talk on school's private instance