Matrix is a good option, can host it for your friends, and can bridge it to literally dozens of other platforms (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Discord, Signal, Telegram, the list goes on)
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Yeah somehow I wanna keep my only bit of social life.
Imagine allowing your social life to be paywalled by a billionaire.
No wonder they just keep trying to fuck us, a whole bunch of people are on their knees with their mouths open.
Imagine your social life being entirely online.
You want me to move to some open source bullshit that nobody uses? For what? If there’s a better alternative than discord sure.
Matrix is a good option, can host it for your friends, and can bridge it to literally dozens of other platforms (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Discord, Signal, Telegram, the list goes on)
Yeah they control everything. Not much to do about it.
There are literally much to do about it, but ok.
Could yeah. But that ain’t happening.