A Discord Alternative – Echoed

acley

We have been online for more than 1.5 years. Back when we started, we didn't see Discord alternatives popping up left and right, so we created our own. Nowadays, there are like 10 of them popping up every single day, most of those are below par and completely usable. If you like to try out a new one you can give us a try no stress haha bye

bitmasher9

Is there anyone there I want to talk to? You need to demonstrate that before I create a login, otherwise there is too much friction for me. The iOS storefront is also far behind your website in quality and attention to detail. Edit: please accept this in the spirit of some quick feedback from one maker to another

LorenDB

Why do all the Discord alternative apps try to 1:1 clone Discord's UI? Half of my dislike of Discord stems from its UI.

soundworlds

While it's great to have alternatives, I suspect a lot us are really only interested in forkable open alternatives (like Matrix / Element), as most concerns about Discord are tied with it being a private company. As far as I can tell, Echoed is also closed the same way Discord is?

hmokiguess

Please please please someone take over discord and their use base. Their nitro and ads is the most toxic nonsense stuff I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I am in a niche market with both new gen workers and customers and discord is a really important medium to engage and connect with them. My soul dies every time I am there dealing with all sorts of psychological traps and baits to more spending coupled with the incessant advertising. I don't even care anymore who wins that market, just get me out of it.

fishgoesblub

Yet another Discord alternative whose effort could've been put into an XMPP client.

s0ss

Are clients and server FOSS? If so, advertise that. Personally, I’m not interested in another platform that isn’t.

bellowsgulch

I'm just ready for something new, personally. I don't really like Discord's vibe of paying for avatar skins? Gross. And paying for custom emojis? Super gross. Yuck.

kennywinker

I see no point in switching from one closed-source platform to another closed-source platform.

dymk

Front page says 150MB RAM, About page says 90MB. Whole site is full of LLM-isms (em-dashes, stilted 'X. Y. Z. <Summary>.' constructions). It's so boring. It says "We put one prompt worth of effort into our landing page". Just like all the others. "No ads · No tracking · No ID verification · Free forever" - why would anyone believe this for a closed source application that, presumably, you want to monetize? Servers and developers aren't free, unless it's open source and/or self hosted.

ludston

Congratulations, I'm sure it was a monumental effort to build this. Good luck with marketing and all that.

Madmallard

Not open source Not interested

jonstaab

xkcd 927 but instead of another standard, another vibe-coded discord clone. I say this as someone building a discord clone ( https://flotilla.social )

hatthew

Is this P2P, or hosted on proprietary servers? How is it funded? I don't like ads and I like free things, but "no ads, free forever" doesn't make me confident in its long term stability.

jimmygrapes

Yeah ok. 2025 to 2026 full of slop signals, LLC reg number from April 2026 to the same address in multiple reports as ultra scammy: https://malwaretips.com/blogs/30-n-gould-st-sheridan-wy-scam... https://www.thesheridanpress.com/news/local/another-scam-rec... https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/scammers-use-reg... Lot of other red flags for me but those are even more vibe-based than everything about this.

muwtyhg

Why do companies like this continue to promise "No Ads Ever"? How do they plan enough money to support their service? Video sharing is incredibly expensive, even Discord is unlikely profitable between their advertising campaigns and server boosting revenue. It's not self-hosted, they are going to have to make money at some point to support the effort.

Apreche

If it’s not open source and self-hostable, it’s a non-starter. Not switching to another closed platform just for it to die. I’m tired of switching. Whatever I switch to next must be able to last the rest of my life expectancy.

Cider9986

https://fluxer.app seems to be the best alternative so far, by a mile. Gained a bunch of users during some controversy too.

anon7000

No one’s squads give 2 shits what language their app is written in. The LLMisms are so annoying to read and tell me nothing genuine about what it’d be like to use it.