I mostly lurk here, and I know we’ve had this discussion come up a number of times since Discord’s age verification changes were announced, but I figured this video offers value for the walkthrough and comparative analysis. Like me, the video authors aren’t seasoned self-hosters, and I’ve still got a lot to learn. Stoat and Fluxer both look appealing to me for my needs, but Stoat seemingly needs self-hosted servers to route through their master server (unless I’m missing something stupid) and I replicated the 404 for Fluxer’s self-hosting documentation seen in the video, so it’s looking like I’m leaning toward a Matrix server of some kind. Hopefully everyone looking for the Discord exit ramp is closer to finding it after this video.
telegram is just as bad if you care about privacy
Yes, i have no clue why people insists on using such shit platform when there are viable solutions easily accessible.
My hopes for the future is that people band together and share servers, perhaps in the form of unlimited federatee non-for profit orgs, or perhaps even a buch of smaller orgs under and umbrella org, just like for forball/sport clubs and so on.
We need to push out all large for profit companies that abuse their user bases.