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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Astra Feb 25

@alice

Discord pulled off it's mask, partnered with fascists, and are trying to put the mask back on. When a company tells you who it is, you believe them. Discord is hardly the only chatting platform. I can promise you, that if enough people leave, friends will follow. If they don't because having a second option for instant messaging is more trouble than respecting your choice not to be on a platform that treats your confidential conversations and very existence like products to be sold, then maybe those friendships aren't worth keeping.

Fuck Discord. And frankly fuck every proprietary social platform. I don't know if decentralized and open source social platforms are the future, but it's the future that we should fight for.

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Mary Beth Rudis Mar 1

@AstraCeleste @Em0nM4stodon @alice I’m curious - (as someone who, back in the day, participated in multi-player game “ops” via Ventrilo or Teamspeak) - what do y’all think of Element (same folks who started Matrix)? Or is it too new to recommend yet?

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Astra Mar 1

@marybethR

For the Matrix clients, Element is what I'd personally recommend, yeah. I find it to be one of the more mature clients with FluffyChat being the other best option. Depending on your preferences either of those I think are the best clients to use for Matrix at this moment. (I am eyeballing Commet though 👀

That said, I think there could be QoL improvements. One issue I have is that if you want to make Spaces, which are Matrix's equivalent to Discord servers, you can't really arrange things meaning you should probably know what order you want things to be in from the get go, and if you want to add moderators, you're going to have to add them manually in each room in that space.

Unless there's something I'm missing. Before recently I primarily used Element for one on one chats or normal group chats. So there's some information I'm missing. Not sure how that would compare to Ventrilo or TeamSpeak as I haven't used either of them and only heard about them recently. 😅

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Mary Beth Rudis

@AstraCeleste @Em0nM4stodon @alice thank you! Honestly I miss the elegant simplicity of Teamspeak. I’ve gone on people’s Discord servers and feel like I’m in a maze of twisty passages, all alike… trying to find the right subgroup to join within a larger community/group. Teamspeak would put you in the right “room” from the moment you logged in. For large player owned corporations you had different chat rooms for different ops/purposes. 1/2

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Mary Beth Rudis Mar 1

@AstraCeleste @Em0nM4stodon @alice 2/2 … then, as a player/user, you could simply move to other rooms if you want to chat with someone there… using a much easier to navigate menu of options than Discord. When Discord first became “the thing” it was folks migrating there from Skype and/or Teamspeak, because TS was showing signs of age. Then, there was no text chat option. Only voice. Now, that’s no longer the case. Self-hosting is free for TS client.