Hello. I’m looking for a more private (for obicous reasons) and fast discord client for android, since the app is terrible and preforms terribly on my relatively old phone. I can’t change to something like matrix/signal, since I can’t convert other people.

  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    Discord is adding ads soon. Currently, they don’t enforce the TOS violation of custom clients, but maybe after they add ads, they will begin to do so. I would be very careful with any of this.

    • Tixanou@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      This. It’s also a bit more private, since it removes most of the tracking by default

      It’s not completely open-source, because Discord itself isn’t, but i don’t think any open-source discord front-end actually exists…

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
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        11 months ago

        Discordo is a completely open-source frontend, and it’s a native TUI app written 100% in Go - no Electron/HTML/Javascript crap.

        If you want a GUI app and something not so barebones, there’s Dissent - a GTK4 app, also written in Go, with no Electron/HTML/Javascript crap.

        And if you’re a Qt fan, there’s also QTCord, written in Python.

        cc: @powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de

  • PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 months ago

    Here’s a full repo listing third-party stuff for Discord including clients. https://github.com/Discord-Client-Encyclopedia-Management/Discord3rdparties

    Spoiler

    None of them exist on Android. You have Discord clients mods like the recommended pre-react version, Aliucord which while outdated (But still working and supported by the project !) fix the slowness issues of the current version. Vencord has a proof-of-concept WPA app too but it’s still mostly just browsing the main website so it ain’t ideal. I would like to point out Beeper https://www.beeper.com/, which is Matrix based and aim to easily use their self-hosted (Or your self-hosted !) bridges to different services, including Discord ! Not ideal outside of small servers or just DM’s however (but you can customize which synced servers you want in it).

    • Persen@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      Wow, thanks for the info. Pre react version is actually somehow performant. I couldn’t really sefhost beeper, since I don’t have my own home network.