Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This is a free to use platform, just saying:

  Meet Pavel Durov, the tech billionaire who founded Telegram

  Pavel Durov was born in St. Petersburg in Soviet Russia.

  The tech entrepreneur cofounded the encrypted messaging service Telegram with his brother Nikolai in 2013. The brothers were born into a family of intellectuals, according to a biography on the Digital-Life-Design Conference website. Durov spoke at the conference in January 2012.

  Durov is now worth $17.1 billion, according to Forbes. Much of his fortune comes from Telegram, which he said hit 1 billion users in March 2025.

  businessinsider.com/pavel-durov-telegram-billiona…

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• Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guilded is dead. Their website redirects to a thank-you page of some sort. I remember trying it out ages ago and I thought it was pretty decent competition for Discord and had a lot of the same features, but ultimately it would have been susceptible to the same kind of fuckery that Discord is giving us right now. These private companies only want to extract value out of their users.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Revolt is now called Stoat Chat. Some sort of legal issue apparently.

  Anyway, for those who don’t know, it’s basically an open source clone of Discord. Definitely worth a look, probably where I’ll my stuff now.

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  • sakuraba@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah it’s the closest to a real discord clone, at least discord before they introduced screen sharing

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• diablomnky666@lemmy.wtf ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Revolt is now Stoat

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• AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IRC :(

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  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No voice/video calling, no screen sharing, no persistent chat history.

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    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sometimes you need to accept using more than one piece of software. And IRC can have persistent chat history.

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      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s why IRC isn’t and never will be a replacement for Discord. Most people don’t care to accept comprimises and friction and people developing the alternatives can not impose compromises on their users and expect general market adoption.

        I really wish there was some real alternative that actually worked like lemmy communities for example where you wouldn’t need to self host but be able to use a server someone else made available to be able to create a community there. And search engine indexing, that would be a must imo.

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  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is IRC still a thing? I havnt used it since 2006. I’d love to see it again

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    • whelk@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Check out libera.chat, one of the most popular IRC networks today. Freenode suffered a hostile takeover and there was a mass migration away from it so I’d avoid that one

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      • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        My instance actually posted something about IRC recently I saw, right after commenting. The luck. I saw the mirc client link, and the memories flooded. Mirc is still okay though?

        I’m basically a noob again. Later this week I plan to sit down with my computer and have a look. I used to only use it to download music, probably would like to do that again… I had every NoFx album,song,recording back in the day. Every single one lol I’d die to have that hard drive back.

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    • 73ms@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is. Also widely bridged with Matrix.

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep, still on it.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guilded went to Roblox-only in 2025. I’d never heard of it until someone else mentioned it as an alternative.

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• GutterRat42@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Revolt is Stoat now and it doesn’t even let me verify my email right now.

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  • Yttra@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

    Yeah, they’re swamped! Glad I made mine around the IPO announcement…

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  • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I signed up yesterday and just got my verification a little while ago. I hear that they’re being swamped right now. I wonder why? 🤔

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guilded is dead

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  • sakuraba@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and it was roblox’s property anyway

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oooohhh.

      Good…uhm riddance?

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• pearOSuser@lemmy.kde.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Element or any Matrix client will be more than enough I guess. It already passed many stepping stones and has all the functionalities which discord users might want + open source

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• Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Trying to point my friends towards matrix/element, they already started a teamspeak server instead though >. >

  The biggest issue is it didn’t seem like matrix/element has streaming video in voice chat, we use that pretty heavily as we’ll play different games and just hang and talk several streaming at a time.

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  • SyrupSplashin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t - they sell your data to police and authoritarian governments

    mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309

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    • HearTwoTalk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is not what the post says. They sell encrypted messaging to government organizations. It’s basic SaaS and allows them to fund themselves.

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