B40: A Free Software CaucusDitch Discord! In early March, Discord will begin age verification for all users world-wide. This is a violation of your freedom and privacy!
Consider one of the following alternatives:
www.stoatchat
www.matrix.org
www.signal.org
www.rocket.chat
Note that this flyer is preliminary and only a draft: if you'd like to help us in listing potential alternatives and their pros/cons feel free to weigh in on the talk page of our wiki!
Travis F W@freesoftwarecaucus #Zulip is also a great option for FLOS communities to #ditchDiscord ( #ditchcord ? )
#communityManagement
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Martina Neumayer@freesoftwarecaucus Fuck matrix/element, they are cop supporters!
There's also #Movim, which is actually pretty nice foss alternative to dirty shitcord.
F4GRX Sébastien
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mirabilos@freesoftwarecaucus uhm. Jabber exists. And for Discord use cases, even IRC. Hell, IRC is probably the best option.
Zoness@mirabilos @freesoftwarecaucus doesn't the nature of IRC make it poor for widespread mobile adoption? Mobile is going to be where the majority of platform growth originates from.
@zoness @freesoftwarecaucus that sounds like corporate drone speech, and I disagree both on the mobile and on the need-to-grow parts.
(And yes, it works on mobile devices, I used IRC on a Windows Mobile 6.1 PocketPC successfully as well. Long as people can actually type, it’ll do great.)
@mirabilos @freesoftwarecaucus I don't think its "corporate drone speech" to want a platform that is easy to use; and I don't think citing an operating system from 2008 proves anything about usability on modern mobile networks. IRC requires persistent connections is intolerant for the average mobile network. This is hard for clients too because if that connection drops you get no message playback unless you have a bouncer which regular people are not going to use.
@zoness @freesoftwarecaucus maybe go back to whatever bluesky you crawled out from
Aoi_X_Kaizaki@freesoftwarecaucus So that's what it is. Someone I followed said Discord blew up. This must be the problem.
Belisaurus@freesoftwarecaucus Forgive me for pointing this out, but we might have to rule-out Matrix.org because it's based in the UK, and it has been compromised by this push for ID-verification by force of law.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1mdgbi4/matrix_homeserver_the_default_one_set_in_the_uk/
Any online service which is based in the UK, Australia and New Zealand would be subject to this same legislation. Perhaps instances located outside of the Commonwealth would work?
jowek@freesoftwarecaucus Matrix are getting more and more connected to the military industrial complex. And historically has some bad israeli ties.
Its UX are bad - and its a nightmare to host.
More info about matrix: https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html
and on hackea too; a presentation of #Deltachat which I also really, really recommend.
It takes 30 seconds to try, and doesn't need any info from you: just pick a user name > go!
and delta chat intro: https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/03/deltachat-is-actually-good-though/
Xavi@freesoftwarecaucus XMPP is missing from that list
Stefan Ihringer@freesoftwarecaucus And if you used Discord as a documentation hub or support forum without any fancy chat features, consider a bulletin board or @zulip !