Can I find communication in places other than discord?

https://lemmy.world/post/39816515

Can I find communication in places other than discord? - Lemmy.World

Clarification of what I mean: It just so happens that I have a job, although not the best one, and it’s not an office job, but it has a good schedule that gives me free time to think and create, although I guess the bottom line is that I’ve also learned how to use my free time for my own purposes without wasting it on unnecessary distractions like TV, Talking about nothing, about unnecessary anxieties, and so on. I recently started doing digital hygiene, switched to Linux a week ago, but I used to be able to chat with Discord people at least once in a while, even if the people there were quite boring, but it somehow helped me get rid of loneliness, but since I no longer trust Discord due to a data breach, I have no idea how to find people online for long-term communication in other places. Do you have any tips? Let’s also take into account that my hobby is writing a light novel. And yes, I touched the grass, but I like fresh air more.

Matrix chat is pretty popular on the fediverse. I don’t have any specific communities to recommend, but I’m sure there’s a suitable one out there.

Too bad Matrix is just terrible.

There isn’t a decent Discord alternative rn

What makes it terrible? I’ve been really enjoying it, I actually prefer it to discord even aside from privacy/morality aspects
It freezes a lot, the search is awful, messages just stop loading forcing a restart, verification is a joke
Not to mention that it’s not very user friendly, none of the clients are designed to be as nice and user friendly as fiscord’s