A friend and I spend a good chunk of the past week looking into Discord alternatives because of Discord speeding up towards enshittification.

We looked into two popular alternatives, Revolt and Matrix/Element, and wanted to share what we found from a non-techie Discord user's perspective. We put our findings here along with articles going into detail about Discord's increasing decline. Feel free to reach out if you find typos, broken links, or outright mistakes!

Personally I've started moving my community to Revolt because it's a better fit for my community, but I will be keeping my Matrix account in case other Discord communities decide to move over there. Depending on what your Discord server needs and techie levels, both can be good alternatives. Neither are outright replacements and both are undergoing development, so both options should continue to improve in the future.

Ocs!!! :D my aunt loved these freaks so!!

Tw usual body horror <3

The CREATURES >:3

Yea so I saw the first two in a dream where they're both in a mc world, so it snowballed into more weirdos <3

So context!!

https://youtu.be/yJXD3pgdmR0?si=ALWZiYbC9kFisFs8 ("false centaur," Element X)

https://youtube.com/shorts/oXef1Ew_ZfA?si=46maoVBaM49-4xME (radioactive long boi, Fingees)

https://youtu.be/saMb-dHJGzw?si=Z9mIJuN_LhXIIzLM (the "2" oc, Fingees)

Yeah, 3 of these are literally based on these guys' goofy ahh videos 💀

Yes, to some degree their actual world is like the videos. Yes, to some degree they follow exactly what the videos show, like they actually move the same way and stuff.

Yes, I've thought far too long about. Whatever these things are.

Gender Buddy: Ilyagender (134/180)

Level: 2

Element: X

FRND: 74

PWR: 105

Abilities:

Chatter: An excitable string of babble from a Buddy that’s overly excited.

Pulse Switch: The overall energetic aura of the Buddy changes its elemental alignment.

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What's your Secure Messenger of choice? I initially thought there was just a slight delay in terms of assuring the provenance of a message.

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Dave Cullen – Lead Vocals

Franco Buonocore – Lead Guitar

Ian Kenna – Rhythm Guitar

Hugo Hernandes – Bass Guitar/Backing Vocals

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