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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 44 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

I found this little substack article that lists out alternatives. The timing is is great & I hope it helps people out.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Also this https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/ which is much more detailed and focuses on decentralised discord-like apps

[–] Piece_Maker@feddit.uk 2 points 8 hours ago

None of those listed are decentralised or Discord-like though, except maybe Matrix, which in theory does both but in practice fails at basically everything

[–] Haunt@thelemmy.club 12 points 13 hours ago

At what point are we going to take responsibility and take action collectively to punish these mainstream platforms ?

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