With the recent news about discord asking for face or ID scan, what other alternatives are there that we can recommend to our less tech-savvy friends?
With the recent news about discord asking for face or ID scan, what other alternatives are there that we can recommend to our less tech-savvy friends?
Yes matrix is decentralized like the fediverse. As far as I can tell none of these other suggestions people are making use decentralized technology (though I might be wrong about that)
There is Shoot which is actually part of the fediverse (uses ActivityPub).
Spacebar is sort of, but you just host it yourself
I get what you’re saying, but I’d personally call any FOSS alternative that can be self hosted by community members decentralized.
(So Teamspeak wouldn’t count because of centralized updates and proprietary code, but all the others would despite having “official” servers)