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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (8 children)

Potential alternatives:

Guilded

Element

Revolt

Telegram

Mumble

Session

[–] pearOSuser@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 5 minutes ago

Element or any Matrix client will be more than enough I guess. It already passed many stepping stones and has all the functionalities which discord users might want + open source

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 41 minutes ago

Guilded went to Roblox-only in 2025. I'd never heard of it until someone else mentioned it as an alternative.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 hour ago

Revolt is now called Stoat Chat. Some sort of legal issue apparently.

Anyway, for those who don't know, it's basically an open source clone of Discord. Definitely worth a look, probably where I'll my stuff now.

[–] AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

IRC :(

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No voice/video calling, no screen sharing, no persistent chat history.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 40 minutes ago

Sometimes you need to accept using more than one piece of software. And IRC can have persistent chat history.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Is IRC still a thing? I havnt used it since 2006. I'd love to see it again

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 24 minutes ago

Yep, still on it.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago

It is. Also widely bridged with Matrix.

[–] diablomnky666@lemmy.wtf 16 points 3 hours ago

Revolt is now Stoat

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Revolt is Stoat now and it doesn't even let me verify my email right now.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 hours ago

Guilded is dead

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Trying to point my friends towards matrix/element, they already started a teamspeak server instead though >. >

The biggest issue is it didn't seem like matrix/element has streaming video in voice chat, we use that pretty heavily as we'll play different games and just hang and talk several streaming at a time.

[–] SyrupSplashin@lemmy.world -4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't - they sell your data to police and authoritarian governments

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309

[–] HearTwoTalk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

That is not what the post says. They sell encrypted messaging to government organizations. It's basic SaaS and allows them to fund themselves.