This reminds me of Reddit's rollout of their "new reddit" interface. When users rejected it, management temporarily backed off, and then boiled the proverbial frogs by rolling it out slowly. In the end, it was still pushed upon people who didn't want it, and the "old reddit" interface that management promised to keep as an alternative was gradually modified in subtle ways that made it more invasive.

It's the same playbook used by politicians who want to expand their power or take away people's rights.

I don't imagine this Discord change will be much different.

Too late. Already deleted my account.

Did you switch to anything? There's a 1000+ person group for my city to support each other and it's become a ghost town.

This was a dress rehearsal for real alternatives to get ready.

I've been playing around with matrix, seems pretty good tbh. Matrix.org for the info, and then joinmatrix.org is a good resource for finding other public instances (homeservers).

I think eventually me and some friends may selfhost

Yeah, I'm on Matrix, but not many on there yet. I started a room to support the Industry TV show but no one has joined. That's ok, it only has to start with 1.