Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March – and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.
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.
Potential alternatives:
Guilded
Element
Revolt
Telegram
Mumble
Session
Revolt is now Stoat
IRC :(
No voice/video calling, no screen sharing, no persistent chat history.
Is IRC still a thing? I havnt used it since 2006. I’d love to see it again
It is. Also widely bridged with Matrix.
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.
Guilded is dead
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.
Don’t - they sell your data to police and authoritarian governments
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309