I've been floating the idea of running Matrix on my NAS anyway, so thanks to Discord for finally pissing me off enough to prioritise getting off of the shitty platform.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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I highly recommend looking into Matrix Ansible Deploy, has an amazing documentation and actually works robustly. It will make the whole process of hosting it way easier, I only needed to change like 5 config values, give Ansible the SSH key for my server, and then basically run "just setup-all" from a Ansible docker.
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I hate all age verification checks, I even hate Steam's when they present me that dumb number drop list before I see a game's store page based on its content. If you know my age, you don't need to ever fucking ask me. If I've told you, with a straight face and no malicious intent that "I'm over 30" "I'm over 30" "I'm over 30" then STOP ASKING ME FOR MY AGE!!
Now something I don't see some people talk about is that, there are people out there who have lied about their age. It's nothing new. You've done it. I've done it. We've collectively been building a platform for this to eventually be coming and we're paying some of that price.
With Discord going Public in March and this rolling out in March, it goes hand and hand.
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For someone that used discord only for video chat and the chat sidebar for D&D since we have players in person and a couple in other states, what would you all recommend?
Should we just switch to Zoom or something?
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The only viable alternatives are Stoat or Steam Chat. Teamspeak is still dragging their feet when it comes to modern feature support.
I've read that Stoat is bad for self-hosting, something about calls/video broadcasting not being part of the docker image, and needing to compile from source with every update?
I spent most of my day searching, spinning up containers, and discussing with friends and users on my discord 'server' about what to do. I burned out after a few hours of frustration. I had Mumble up and running a year ago but that was a bit too techy for new users, and it's not really the 'community' feature set that I'd want...
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Discord was always an overhyped crap.
It's basically IRC, with 2 good features (voice, video) and a whole helluva lotta bullshit features that only exist to be monetized (Nitro, stickers, etc).
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