I am also unsure of where to go after discord dies. Make a post if/when you find an alternative.

let it ferment for a while

there are alternatives that will appear for the sole reason of reaplacing discord but without the AI and ID bullshit

but ill expect atleast a month to two before trusting anything after it appears just to be sure if its possible to wait

Yeah, my mate and I are just using Telegram. Telegram has always been an IM we've used but Discord was the main one so with Discord violently shitting the bed, Telegram is now our only source of contact.

We'll definitely wait until something more permanent pops up.

Yeah... it just does suck because we want to get something set up asap.

Half so there's a good chance of it getting popular if we get in the door early. Half because I've been desperately wanting more socializing, and losing Discord fucked with that even more.

THANK YOU!! I hear so many people that talk about Stoat as some gift from god alternative that solves all the issues of Discord, meanwhile I keep saying it's UK based and WILL have the same thing!

Yeah, luckily an artist friend told me what's up with Stoat before I settled on it so now I know. I will probably just keep to Telegram and, if things don't improve, my mate and I will make a telegram group o3o

Yeah it seems like one of the more consistent platforms for the most part.

But yeah, it's amazing that people trust Stoat saying they won't do it, meanwhile you know they'll fold when the absolutely insane fines are threatened.

Yup. x3

It's real disappointing how the past few months have been so far. Like man, we lost so many decades of progress, might as well be living like the 1800's again.

I don't see a reason not to try out stoat, just to have an alternative way to communicate with folks. If things are bad, you just leave, but it's still fine to use until then yeah?

It's more just.. I don't want to put in the effort of setting stuff up and adding people if Stoat is just going to end up like Discord anyways.

I think most places are going to be like this. It is rare any one online social site lasts forever, much like discord's predecessors, because they can be shut down for any number of reasons. At least by being set up elsewhere, you reduce the odds of getting stranded incase one goes down before the other.

Well, yes, all IMs, sites, programs.. etc. will end up dying but Discord's death is entirely self-inflicted and stupid. Stoat's will be the same just due to it being UK-based so there's no reason for me to move when Stoat's going to die within the year.

it's more complicated than other communication channels, and I haven't used it myself so I can't give many details about it other than the surface level stuff, but I'd recommend looking into "matrix."

It's an open source and self-hostable (if you're willing/able to go through the effort of setting it up), so you would be able to do with the data what you want (assuming you use self hosted servers; also, if your make your self hosted server public other people would be able to scrape the data (since they have access to the server and its contents); in other words, you can decide how open/closed it is).

You can even bridge discord stuff over to it (which basically means, matrix and discord will share messages; of course, if a message is shared to discord, data will be shared there).

I've heard its annoying to set up, but it seems like a good way to maintain communications without worrying about what the company that owns the service will do down the line (assuming you own your server).