The absolute shitload majority of users will not care about this enough to stop using the product
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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I am already learning about matrix protocol which is seeming like a good alternative. https://matrix.to/#/#all-topics:matrix.org
After what happened in Nepal last year, this 100% tracks with the dystopian narrative we are currently living. The powers that be saw a small country use it as a tool to affect change. To me, and tell me if I lm jumping to conclusions here, its obvious as to why this policy change is happening at all, to prevent the site from being used in that manner again.
After what happened in Nepal last, this 100% tracks with the dystopian narrative we are currently living.
This…I do believe 1,000% that, when people use any form of applications to create a community that supports each other and brings goodness in generalization they will always shut any apps down, or another company such as Oracle, BlackRock, Vanguard will buy it out and trash the application, housing, property, food, and anything that seems to attract the public attention that makes the world just a little better. I truly believe these evil demonic overlords will do anything to make society live in utter depravity, non unification of anything, no community, isolation, fear, depression, and division. This is what they always want, and anything that brings us together, they will shut it down. I have watched this for years. How new innovating unicorn/startup apps will go about 3 years at most. And then Zuckface (Other crap companies such as meta) will try to somehow purchase an app to just crap on and destroy. Mediocre disgusting apps such as facebook, and instagram that has done more damage in a society than to ever help, will always progress and continue. Because it separates us, divides us, puts us in echo chambers, toxic and does nothing to benefit humanity. Things like discord, that creates a community to support one another, will always get shutdown or purchased by demon possy who will just eventually get the app to become a ghost town. I am curious to what app is next. We had TikTok and Discord on the chopping block. I am curious to what other apps are next for 2026.
Control the conversations in the digital third spaces. Crush ideas, punish those who are a threat to “authority”
What happened in Nepal and prevent what manner being used?
The youth used discord to coordinate an overthrow of the government, and used it to organise a vote for who to replace the leader with.
I was using discord with notifiarr for a notification platform for my jellyfin server/*arr stack. Shut all that down and setup a self-hosted instance of ntfy today. Works perfect, should have done it sooner.
when discord and slack took off, IRC community shrank drastically. itb was and is a real shame
What's stopping us from resurrection of the old ways again?
technical barriers for the user and a lack of animated emoji stickers
pretty sure discord is cause of video/audio more - it replaced ventrilo
Screen sharing is a big deal for games.
exactly
I'm truly surprised that lots of people don't like it. I expected most will just silently obey the new orders of our overlords.
I found this little article that lists out alternatives. The timing is is great & I hope it helps people out.
Also this https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/ which is much more detailed and focuses on decentralised discord-like apps
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
At what point are we going to take responsibility and take action collectively to punish these mainstream platforms ?
Keeping it real
Good.
Discord is overused for help forums and wikis, which makes them extremely difficult to search and dependent upon third party software to be maintained. I hope this will force people away from that behaviour and back to good old fashioned messageboards that have been working just fine since at least the 80s
If you say your documentation is on discord we don't run your software.
Absolute fucking clown shit
Wait 6 months, this will have changed nothing for Discord and they'll carry on. Most likely in 2-3 years they'll deploy the age verify for all users, not just users trying to access "adult" stuff.
Americans- If you're thinking "this isn't so bad" please consider that all it takes is a teeny tiny, insignificant api added to the back end with absolutely no notice to users and suddenly the DHS has a database of dissenters, with cross-referenced IDs, photos of faces, chat history, link share history, raw uploaded photos, and approximate locations.
Say no to this. If you need a temporary alternative that's quick to get going, create a signal group chat with your friends.
Forget DHS or other government agencies, these companies have been shown to be untrustworthy stewards of our data from regular hackers.
I get that discord is used to groom kids and there is a very real risk to allowing children to use it unsupervised, but that means kids devices are the ones that need to be locked down, not the rest of the world.
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☝️🤓 Discord said they're going to delete the data!
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The "someone" is referring to Discord, not you.
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Stop a calling this "age.verification" and start calling it what it is, "identity harvesting".
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