Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March – and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.
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.
None of those listed are decentralised or Discord-like though, except maybe Matrix, which in theory does both but in practice fails at basically everything
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.
Also this https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/ which is much more detailed and focuses on decentralised discord-like apps
None of those listed are decentralised or Discord-like though, except maybe Matrix, which in theory does both but in practice fails at basically everything
Keeping it real