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?

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.works
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    We’ve been using Element (Matrix) for our household group chats and it has worked perfectly. That said, I do have a whole ass IT professional in-house to set up a dedicated server so I cannot speak to ease and such.

    I think most people don’t want to self host though. I can’t speak to the ease of signing up and using the available public servers.

    In terms of functionality as a chat program it’s great.

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      I can’t speak to the ease of signing up and using the available public servers.

      I can speak to this. It has been fine. Your mileage may vary by server/host of course.