One more post about Discord and the age ID thing, but this time looking into how the alternatives have failed to capture market share and going over some of the background to this whole fiasco.
https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/so-discord-did-the-age-verification-thing/

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@sendpaws Unfortunately, any centralized platform is going to suffer from the same regulatory pressure as Discord, so any alternative needs to be decentralized while also being user friendly. I don't know how it can be done though.

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@xianc78 I mean maybe make calling work on shit like Matrix first. But I think the biggest problem is the userbase.

Both their friends using it, and having to deal with anyone other than edgelords trying to assert their dominance.

@xianc78 @sendpaws

We literally have Teamspeak and Mumble.
Both are self-hostable.
Both don't require the user to host a full stack server like Matrix does.
Both give the user 100% control over their own server.
@sendpaws @xianc78

One streamer wants to screenshare.

Everyone else just wants in game voice chat, with the added bonus of text chat and file sharing.

The streamer can go find some streaming software to stream, lol.
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