Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord

23•brydencalaway•6h ago

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TZubiri•1h ago

Horrible idea, Discord is an app for videogames, which means it's an app for kids.

E2E is just not appropriate for handling childrens' messaging.

2paz7x•14m ago

I had no clue videogames were for kids, silly me. I'd better uninstall Steam right now, and move to Microsoft Teams to talk to my friends while I'm at it.

throwawayy6767•11m ago

This post genuinely made me laugh in anticipation of the replies it'd trigger, have an upvote friend

RandomGerm4n•10m ago

Games aren't just for kids. Furthermore, children also have a right to privacy and should be protected, especially from the big tech companies.

fuckff•1h ago

Claims to be done right, vibecoded bs from last week that can't even get the links on their page right, who cares

lynx97•1h ago

Means "punishment" in german, weird name.

Dilettante_•35m ago

"Discord becomes strife cause that means kinda the same thing, strife becomes strafe cause that's a gamer term"

is the completely german-less train-of-thought I could imagine leading to this name

TheDong•35m ago

And "discord" means "disagreement", "lack of harmony", "arguments" in English. Even weirder name for a chat application in an even more commonly used language.

"Slack" associates pretty strongly with "slack off" (get no work done) too, so that one's also strange.

I think "Zulip" has the best naming of all these.

ButlerianJihad•25m ago

The only explanation I can offer for “Slack” is that its founders and top brass have been adherents of the “parody religion” Church of the SubGenius, and have successfully interposed themselves into the everyday business machinations of a wide swath of Western businesses.

Meanwhile, “Discord” wouldn’t surprise me if it were a product of the Discordians themselves, a similarly disorganized “parody religion”.

pampas•1h ago

No reaction emojis?

Stitch4223•17m ago

Previous alternatives for discord never included video, so they were no alternatives. So: great to see this!

Nitpick: the bottom row on the front page shows a discord link, but not their own strafe link. I hope they can add this because of dogfooding.

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