Ditch Discord!
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@freesoftwarecaucus #Zulip is also a great option for FLOS communities to #ditchDiscord ( #ditchcord ? )
#communityManagement -
Ditch 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@freesoftwarecaucus Fuck matrix/element, they are cop supporters!
There's also #Movim, which is actually pretty nice foss alternative to dirty shitcord.
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Ditch 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@freesoftwarecaucus
What about #XMPP -
@freesoftwarecaucus Fuck matrix/element, they are cop supporters!
There's also #Movim, which is actually pretty nice foss alternative to dirty shitcord.
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Ditch 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@freesoftwarecaucus uhm. Jabber exists. And for Discord use cases, even IRC. Hell, IRC is probably the best option.
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Ditch 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@freesoftwarecaucus So that's what it is. Someone I followed said Discord blew up. This must be the problem.
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Ditch 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@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?
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@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?
@freesoftwarecaucus @Beli Rule out any service in the US as well due to similar laws being implemented in various states besides the obvious reasons
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@freesoftwarecaucus @Beli Rule out any service in the US as well due to similar laws being implemented in various states besides the obvious reasons
@trebach @freesoftwarecaucus @Beli rrright
where does that leave us? France? Self-hosted? Federated? Orgs that have made public statements to not collect IDs? -
Ditch 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.chatNote 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!
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@trebach @freesoftwarecaucus @Beli rrright
where does that leave us? France? Self-hosted? Federated? Orgs that have made public statements to not collect IDs?@freesoftwarecaucus @Beli @travisfw I don't know about the EU due to possible age restriction laws.
I don't know about the rest because I'm not a lawyer and it's going to be jurisdiction specific.
Maybe Canada or Switzerland?
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Ditch 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@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/
