Account deleted. Fuck em. Was already pissed with their restrictions with nitro.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Worried about the children while protecting thousands of paedophiles that raped children. (The governments, not discord)
Regardless, fuck discord and instead of "threatening" an exodus, why doesn't everybody register with xmpp or mumble and figure it out from there. Crazy staying on discord from here on.
The problem is finding a good alternative immediately. I don't mind to hop and check out multiple services, but some of my friends wants to just install one thing and be done.
My checklist is not too much either, but for some reason video calling is not something included with the lot of them.
Self-hosting a matrix instance might be an okay alternative. And because its decentralized its not really possible for it to have top-down age verification imposed on it, if it ever does get popular
Yeah, but if accounts are made on mumble for example, the migration will happen there quicker. Then if that doesn't suit many, others are an option. I'm guessing whichever platform benefits from this will happily make any changes that are currently missing.
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Sadly, but another good platform has rotten.
Discord thinks that it is important. Good news that it isn't. And even if there is no good substitute, then it is possible to abandon Discord by just quitting and not looking for any alternatives. Like if your local market stopped having aubergines then you can just stop even wanting them. Not a big deal.
hmm it's more like if the supermarket closed... you still need food (social interaction). so where do you get it now. like you ate out sometimes before, you let others cook for you every so often. but for many, discord is their primary means of keeping in touch. you need to find something to replace it. so we're all debating if we grow our own food or drive 4 hours to the next closest which already has going out of business signs up.
not wanting to use a platform that someone prefers is the easiest way to lose touch with someone these days. like i struggle to socialize with tiktok people these days just because i don't get their references and they can't send me their memes. if they're also an imessage diehard we probably just haven't talked in a while.
Not a big deal to you
There are other people in the world that live different lives than you. Some of us use it as a primary messaging platform. It's how I talk to most friends and family
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I deleted my Discord account last night. Good riddance.
Someone on Reddit claims reddit will do the same soon. I wonder if it's govt pressure.
I assume it's UK/EU's expanding social media laws that are driving this, in addition to Discord's imminent Initial Public Offering coming in March. They're trying to clean house to show how profitable they can be, the same way Reddit created their walled garden by restricting third-party connections prior to their IPO.
It's bog-standard enshittification to please the shareholders.
Lots of governments want it. But its no excuse doing it in a stupid way. For example EU IDs should have a function that just verifies someone is over 18 without any other info being send. At least the German one does. But its not being used.
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potentially. it's going to become more of the norm as more nations enforce stuff like this to "protect the kids" coughget your id and know what you're doing onlinecough
Also keep in mind Discord is just about to launch their IPO in March so the timing lines up.
I agree, except that it's the data broker corporations that are really behind this.
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sure they're leaving but...where? what's a viable alternative?
I mean if I had it my way everyone would just go back to IRC, I still use IRC. it's great, nothings changed, it's perfect. combine that with like mumble or teamspeak and you're good to go.
I checked out Stoat lastnight and it's very slow. took well over an hour to get a verification email (I assume because many others were signing up) and the current server offerings are minimal. Also a good majority of the themes listed simply don't work. it's growing and I'd say it's the best alternative right now but it's not there yet and I worry it or the various instances of it could hold up if there was a massive Discord exodus.
Matrix is a no and xmpp ain't much better.
I'm moving everyone to stoat. I'm not an expert, but from my perspective and use needs it's functionality the same or slightly better in every single department. Things are laggy currently but that's because they didn't expect a wave and they're being really transparent about their efforts to accommodate that. As for content, I've never used discord as a social media, I use it as an organized group text and team speak for gaming. I expect public servers will become more viable with the swell in users though.
Last time I tried to play around with Stoat, I never even got a verification email, so taking an hour sounds like progress I guess? I'll have to try again.
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I would unironically sooner become an actual hermit and never socialize again than give these cretins my ID or even trust that they'll delete an age verification photo. Knowing Discord? yeah, no, absolutely fucking not
Exodus to another discord-clone. Great.
We need more than a discord clone. We need something that is structurally capable of avoiding these kind of top-down attacks. We need something decentralized. I think something using the matrix protocol would be a good fit
Matrix is good but not as simple as discord. Lots of users aren't going to like it.
Yeah. In my experience it’s more complicated than Discord but not as complicated as the fediverse. But either way, even if we can use this as an opportunity to boost its popularity among techy people then that would be a win in my books. Hopefully one day someone will come along and make a front end for Mstrix thats as frictionless to use as Discord
Can see this in the future after those dumb enough to share ID, Email from Discord Please pay X amount for screen sharing copyright content.