Mastodawn

The correct response is still "Fuck you Discord, too little too late".

They're only pulling back from March to later this year, and adding credit card options instead of face scans isn't addressing the issue of "fuck you, you don't need to know who I am".

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YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉 Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights! IT WORKS! ✊🔒 https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/ Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform. But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere. This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others. Celebrate that. And keep pushing back. #Privacy #AgeVerification #Discord #PrivacyWin

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carsen 🦖Feb 25

@alice @Em0nM4stodon do y'all know of any discord alternatives?

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Momo Feb 25

@himbokisser
There is Fluxer. https://fluxer.app/
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Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first

Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.

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Adam Honse

@momo @himbokisser @alice @Em0nM4stodon There's also Spacebar (https://spacebar.chat/) which is reimplementing Discord's API in a self-hostable, open source way. The main issue is issues with voice chat but they're actively working on it so I'm hopeful. It already feels like Discord but better as there's no stupid Nitro paywall, you can just have banners and animations and use emojis everywhere like you should.

SpacebarChat - Selfhosted, secure communication that you're already familiar with

Spacebar is a free and open source reverse engineering and reimplementation of Discord, including both the backend and frontend. It's a chat platform similar to Slack and Rocket.chat

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Momo Feb 25

@CalcProgrammer1
Fluxer uses Livekit as voice/video backend, which works well (at least in my Foundry stack for TTRPGs). There is an option to self-host it but they want to further improve it when their code refactoring is done. They also plan a federation option between selfhosted instances. I have planned to revisit the project and set up an instance when federation is implemented
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