Alternatives to Discord when introduces age verification (and then close down the server entirely when it introduces)

[BSDnux]

Discord has announced that will introduce a mandatory age verification for ALL Discord accounts and servers form early March. Refusing to give their official ID and biometric facial recognition on you, your account will be set to "teen mode" by default which means will enforce restrictions what can do such as viewing, limiting sending DMs and restrictions on voice chat unless you do the KYC-like tasks.
As I enjoy privacy as much as possible and this is big no no to me and I want the members in our server to migrate to different communication platform, so alternatives exist.
Alternatives must be FOSS, private and decentralized, here is the list I consider it as recommended:
Stoat
Matrix
SimpleX
IRC
Mumble
Spacebar

[CuriousTommy]

There were discussions on Discord about this issue.

I kind of want to wait and see what direction the mainstream audience chooses as their discord alternative. I don't want the Darling community to be too isolated from the mainstream community...

[BSDnux]

Possibility is to use a bridge between Discord and Matrix/Stoat/Spacebar/IRC/etc.

[CuriousTommy]

I kind of want to wait and see what direction the mainstream audience chooses as their discord alternative. I don't want the Darling community to be too isolated from the mainstream community...

So far, I'm leaning towards Matrix (there are some pretty good Discord-like clients for it, like commet.chat and cinny.in).

The only downside with Matrix is that we would probably need to rely on self-hosting, since t2bot.io is really unreliable...

The other option is to decommission our Discord server, and have our users migrate to Matrix. However, we will lose most of our users that way...

Possibility is to use a bridge between Discord and Matrix/Stoat/Spacebar/IRC/etc.

@BSDnux Are there any other bridges like t2bot.io but much more reliable?

If we can setup a bridge that doesn't require self-hosting, is free, and reliable, that would be ideal for us!

[Daren-42]

Personally, I have my eye on Fluxer as my Discord replacement... as long as they don't get a take down from Discord for how similar the look and feel is:

https://fluxer.app/

May be worth a look.

[Lazerbeak12345]

Fluxer doesn't seem to be federated, so what's to stop fluxer from doing what Discord is doing in the future? The discord community moved from Discord from Skype already. Surely we've learned our lesson?