and the choices are trivially winnowed down further: zulip isn't decentralized, so matrix is the only option.
Plus, matrix has this sweet ass-client: https://commet.chat/

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Join the most challenging server of them all: Outside.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Online spaces like this will be 90+% bots within a few years. Legitimately the only solution

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Until all outside spaces are owned by someone selling the next distraction like VR wank pods, just hanging around in public spaces not spending money is made a crime, then hanging around outside just becomes straight up dangerous due to pollution, weather swinging wildly between biting winds, freezing rain, and scorching heat.

Reclaim the Outside now before there's nothing left of it!

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

I hear wank pods and swinging; you have my attention 😏

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

The bots will take over the outside eventually, too

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 days ago

Good luck with that on the Fediverse or on Matrix.

[–] dsilverz@calckey.world 1 points 6 days ago

@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world @mesamunefire@piefed.social
@peertube@lemmy.world

Yeah, very challenging.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago

Fluxer.app or Stoat.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

discord was always kind of shit; we definitely didn't need another blackbox in communications back in 2015.

would love it if people moved away to something like stoat (can't wholeheartedly recommend element / matrix right now), unfortunately I don't see it happening at any large scale, and maybe that's not the end of the world.

many of us made a similar move away from reddit to lemmy and other activitypub-powered aggregators back in 2023. it's small and niche but pretty lovely? we generally have pleasant experiences here.

sort of apples to oranges but maybe the same can be true for people who want to move away from discord for ideological reasons.

[–] CMDR_Horn@piefed.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Steam voice. Valve already knows my account is more than old enough to order Alcohol.

[–] melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

Not only that, but they use probably the most not-shit age assurance method (adding a credit card to your account).

[–] phaseshift@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Reject modernism; embrace tradition. XMPP based chat software and Ventrilo.

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago

Start our own chat platform, with blackjack and hookers?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Touch grass?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Let's not get too hasty

[+] tyler@programming.dev -17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Just to be clear, discord is just following through on regulations. It absolutely does not matter what platform you use, even if it’s decentralized, because if legislation keeps pushing for these controls it will affect any product out there. The only real option is completely private, self hosted services. No public access at all.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck is UK legislation going to do with a Matrix server hosted in Brazil?

[–] TidBit@mander.xyz 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Which regulations required Discord to default users worldwide as teens and request government ID's to resort some of the basic functionality if there's contradicting or limited user data?

Discord has been aiming to have their IPO in Q1 2026 for a while now, which I have to assume you didn't know. Thinking all this is due to wide spread privacy invasive laws enacted by many countries across the globe and not Discord just attempting to associate verified and specific data to most of their end users is laughable!

Discord has confidentially filed for a US IPO, targeting a Q1 2026: https://web.archive.org/web/20260217002224/https://techfundingnews.com/discord-ipo-q1-25bn-valuation-microsoft-rejection/

[+] tyler@programming.dev -9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You aren’t required to provide an ID, you can use “AI recognition” so your full argument immediately falls on its face.

19 states of the US have implemented social media identity verification laws and porn identity laws so yeah, it’s already happening in the US, it’s happening in Europe, Australia, it’s happening everywhere.

edit: for those just blindly downvoting and listening to the conspiracy theorist above. 30% of discord's user base is the USA. so yeah, if the USA is passing social media identity laws then they're just gonna implement the laws globally. It's easier on them, they don't have to verify who is in what country, they avoid vpn checks, they just let their 'identity partners' handle it, country be damned.

This is Occam's Razor. There's a dead simple explanation and the user above is trying to make up some crazy conspiracy theory that doesn't even make sense since you don't have to provide a fucking ID.

[–] TidBit@mander.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Falls on it's face lol! You mean a single T left uncrossed, whereas you've omitted relevant and quite well known info regarding Discord finally being on the cusp of their IPO after attempting it for more than 10 years.

Nonetheless, this "AI recognition" which somehow destroys my well laid out and supported comment requires an extensive behavior profile to even be an option for each user. Worse yet, it's proprietary software that's been shown on multiple occasions to be horrendous with accuracy. These accuracy issues may result in this AI company having your biometric data while also now being forced to upload an ID to get on the platform.

PS: The EU, Australia, and United States population's combined is 9.9% of the worlds population. But due to 38% of US states and 11% of EU countries with some ID law, plus Australia's first attempt to keep kids under 16 off social media, you still can somehow validate the global enforcement of laws put forward by the minority population from a group representing less than 10% of the planet?!

You're either horrendous with math and simple reasoning, being paid by Discord, or a troll that's real terrible at their job

[+] tyler@programming.dev -8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You’re the one making wild claims dude. So yeah, it falls on its face, you have no evidence for what you claim, and there’s literally evidence against what you claim.

[–] TidBit@mander.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Ok, here's proof of what you make me assume you're referencing as there's no mention of anything at all, just broad statements. Also, look above, I've provided data already while you've gone little kid mode getting cranky and just blindly following the nonsensical trajectory of you're ludicrous and half baked initial statement.

“Facial age estimation tools are notoriously unreliable, particularly for people of color, trans and nonbinary people, and people with disabilities. The internet has now proliferated with stories of people bypassing these facial age estimation tools. But when systems get it wrong, users may be forced into appeals processes or required to submit more documentation, such as government-issued IDs... Even newer approaches (things like age inference, behavior tracking, financial database checks, digital ID systems) expand the web of data collection, and carry their own tradeoffs around access and error.”

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/discord-voluntarily-pushes-mandatory-age-verification-despite-recent-data-breach

[–] tyler@programming.dev -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

... you've got to be joking lol. you do realize that discord isn't the ones getting the government ids right? like all of your claims hinge on discord retaining these ids, which I've already explained you don't have to provide (you've even admitted that) and that they don't even get if you do provide it!

I don't even know why you're defending governments here. It's ridiculous! discord isn't the problem, it's government's passing laws that cause this!

liked what even are you arguing? that there aren't laws being passed that cause this?

edit I just saw your edit claiming:

PS: The EU, Australia, and United States population’s combined is 9.9% of the worlds population. But due to 38% of US states and 11% of EU countries with some ID law, plus Australia’s first attempt to keep kids under 16 off social media, you still can somehow validate the global enforcement of laws put forward by the minority population from a group representing less than 10% of the planet?!

well yeah. The USA is 30% of discord's userbase, so of course they're going to add features that affect everyone if thirty % of their userbase now has ID laws. They're not gonna partially implement it. Your claim that I'm bad at math is hilarious since you seem so focused on the complex conspiracy theory that you can't even see the plainly obvious truth. Occam's Razor.

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 5 points 6 days ago

Good luck KYCing self-hosted instances.