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So anyone who knows some good altenatives that are either FOSS or EU based?
Making you aware that the age requirement probably comes from the EU. Seeking another EU based solution might introduce the same requirement.
Note, this is happening for the same reason Reddit started enshittifying much harder all of a sudden. Discord wants to do an IPO and so they're going to suddenly start squeezing their users to make the numbers look good just in time for that IPO. Their bet is that they have enough momentum that enough people will stick with them long enough for the IPO to succeed, and after that happens, it's someone else's problem.
So far, I have stumbled upon Stoat, a project called Sharkord, the Matrix network and the XMPP network.
Xmpp is both secure and snappy. Stoat doesn't federate but the interface is really Discord-like.
Some kind of XMPP based Stoat would be nice.
this is not at all what i'm seeing on discord, and I think it's worthy of note that the article's sample is Reddit posts in r/discordapp. Discord users who use Reddit in general have a systemic bias that's close to ours, as opposed to the majority that is young Discord users.
Also could guess how many people have already uploaded pictures to their servers.
XMPP is the way! There are dozens of us!
The absolute shitload majority of users will not care about this enough to stop using the product
I use it to stay connected to my local community including the high school robotics team I help mentor. I don’t have much of a choice. :(
Kinda like reddit
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I am already learning about matrix protocol which is seeming like a good alternative. https://matrix.to/#/#all-topics:matrix.org
I have already spun up an instance for my friends. It was easier than I thought. You can bridge it into Discord an import the history of all channels of your servers, so you won't lose it all too. Worked pretty well.
After what happened in Nepal last year, this 100% tracks with the dystopian narrative we are currently living. The powers that be saw a small country use it as a tool to affect change. To me, and tell me if I lm jumping to conclusions here, its obvious as to why this policy change is happening at all, to prevent the site from being used in that manner again.
After what happened in Nepal last, this 100% tracks with the dystopian narrative we are currently living.
This…I do believe 1,000% that, when people use any form of applications to create a community that supports each other and brings goodness in generalization they will always shut any apps down, or another company such as Oracle, BlackRock, Vanguard will buy it out and trash the application, housing, property, food, and anything that seems to attract the public attention that makes the world just a little better. I truly believe these evil demonic overlords will do anything to make society live in utter depravity, non unification of anything, no community, isolation, fear, depression, and division. This is what they always want, and anything that brings us together, they will shut it down. I have watched this for years. How new innovating unicorn/startup apps will go about 3 years at most. And then Zuckface (Other crap companies such as meta) will try to somehow purchase an app to just crap on and destroy. Mediocre disgusting apps such as facebook, and instagram that has done more damage in a society than to ever help, will always progress and continue. Because it separates us, divides us, puts us in echo chambers, toxic and does nothing to benefit humanity. Things like discord, that creates a community to support one another, will always get shutdown or purchased by demon possy who will just eventually get the app to become a ghost town. I am curious to what app is next. We had TikTok and Discord on the chopping block. I am curious to what other apps are next for 2026.
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I found this little substack article that lists out alternatives. The timing is is great & I hope it helps people out.
Matrix and XMPP based apps wont cut it for most Discord users. Guilded was taken offline in December. Revolt is now called stoat.chat and is so far the most promising alternative for Discord.
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I was using discord with notifiarr for a notification platform for my jellyfin server/*arr stack. Shut all that down and setup a self-hosted instance of ntfy today. Works perfect, should have done it sooner.
Americans- If you're thinking "this isn't so bad" please consider that all it takes is a teeny tiny, insignificant api added to the back end with absolutely no notice to users and suddenly the DHS has a database of dissenters, with cross-referenced IDs, photos of faces, chat history, link share history, raw uploaded photos, and approximate locations.
Say no to this. If you need a temporary alternative that's quick to get going, create a signal group chat with your friends.
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