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.
I heard sharkord allows for self-host. It’s super early in development, but it’s browser based for now, and I think if more people get on board and improve it, it’d be a pretty good alternative.
So anyone who knows some good altenatives that are either FOSS or EU based?
Element/Matrix and Stoat (formerly Revolt)
Both have discord like communities (albeit elements are a little different), self hostable and are open source
I missed a feature like voice rooms in discord server in elements it only had server groupcalls last time i looked. Did this change ?
yes, they are called video rooms for some reasons, but ofc can be used with webcam turned off too
Stoat (formerly Revolt), is a strong FOSS competitor with a Discord-like feeling
https://stoat.chat/
https://github.com/stoatchat
I heard sharkord allows for self-host. It’s super early in development, but it’s browser based for now, and I think if more people get on board and improve it, it’d be a pretty good alternative.