Lead a Discord Exodus with a Matrix Server

The Internet, and large groups of people in general, tend to have a remarkably short collective memory. Whether it’s the nature of algorithms or the people themselves to always be …. Lead a Discord Exodus with a Matrix Server.

Whether it’s the nature of algorithms or the people themselves to always be chasing the next novelty, maintaining long-term engagement for even relatively small changes can be challenging. Distractions abound, and motivation tends to fade over time. This past spring, Discord’s unpopular decision to force age verification resulted in a brief flash-in-the-pan of outrage that dissipated when they promised to delay its roll-out.

Rather than backtrack on unpopular policies, they’ve been slowly boiling the frog with incremental changes towards this same goal in the meantime. One of the options to deal with this is to migrate over to something like a Matrix server, which has several benefits over Discord including being open-source and self-hostable. Unlike Discord, a closed platform subject to the whims of a private company, Matrix is a communications protocol and open standard.

Its major server and client implementations are open source, so anyone can build tools around it and integrate it with other systems that also use this protocol.