Thank you for giving me more time to figure out alternatives

Don't forget that Persona, the Peter Theil backed company, was found by whitehats to contain a us government backend for them to run facial recognition against government watchlists and scanned your chat history to determine your age and also reported any "suspicious activity" to the government.

The time to delete this privacy cancer is now.

The only acceptable option: don't fucking bother.

While not perfect, whenever people talk about Discord alternatives I have noticed no one mentions Steam Chat. It pretty much has the same features and drawbacks as many of the other suggested alternatives with the added benefit being most people already have accounts.

Edit: One of the biggest problems I have found with finding alternatives (besides finding an alternative that has screensharing and VC for mobile users) is finding one my friends are receptive of. Matrix, Stoat, whatever else my friends are not interested and seem they would rather just try and trick the Discord verification shit. But Steam Chat they actually considered and seemed fairly interested once they found out what features it had. The fact most of them already had Steam accounts was a major reason why they were willing to consider it.

I’m just gonna not do that regardless. I don’t use it enough to give in to that shit. They’re not the damn government and had a breach like months ago. Fuckin donkey brain shit.

More options to refuse, nice

My suggestion to discord:

Require age input when making a user

Then if the child wants an account, a parent has to make one and create their profile and choose what they can and cannot do. Sort of like parental controls for video game consoles, smart phones etc

No age verification required. No ID etc

That way i can check a box that disallows my kid to join any server, or he has to request access which i have to confirm etc

Same can be done for friends requests and PMs etc