I’m still hopeful about https://veilid.com/ but I suspect that’s a long way out; the protocol is still in development stages, let alone implementations of it.

[citation needed]

Don’t do it; they’re a security nightmare: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is-your-android-tv-streaming-box-part-of-a-botnet/

There are safer ways to acquire content to view.

Syncthing is great for syncing things like keepass dbs

Either adopted heir of a wealthy uncle, or gardener.

It’s absolutely feasible; it’s just not painless. The network effect is real. This is something most of us here on the fediverse should be well familiar with: I’d wager we’ve all left a big proprietary centralized platform for a smaller one with less content that doesn’t exactly fit our needs. Yes, it can suck; yes, you’ll miss out on content and discussions that you would have seen before; yes, you’ll be fine in a year anyway.

That said, it sounds like Discord is doing some backpedaling at the moment, and that the vast majority of people won’t have to do this. If that’s so, there’s some time before it enshittifies further. I’m going to use that to check out alternatives. My first step will be spinning up Matrix and a Discord bridge to see if that meets my needs. Then some of the other platforms, probably Stoat and Spacebar. I’m going to treat them as beta tests and give lots of feedback to the dev teams, which I hope will help incentivize development. I might even throw a few bucks at promising projects.

The ultimate end of centralized platforms is decay. It’s time to get serious about Discord replacements, at least for me.

Sounds like it’s experimental at the moment:

Voice/Video when?

Currently there is experimental voice/video WebRTC support in Spacebar. UDP connections are not currently supported.

This is a very difficult feature to get working, especially given that we must implement it the exact same way as Discord.com for client compatibility, so if you find any bugs please open an issue in Spacebar server.

We would also be incredibly thankful for any assistance.

https://docs.spacebar.chat/faq/

So might not be ready for primetime. Voice is pretty critical to how I often use Discord. Video less so, but still important.

There’s also https://spacebar.chat/, which I’ve been hearing some buzz about, but not really here; not sure if that’s because there are known problems with it or what.

Edit: it looks like voice and video are just experimental right now, so might not be a good replacement for many: https://docs.spacebar.chat/faq/

Last time I tried to play around with Stoat, I never even got a verification email, so taking an hour sounds like progress I guess? I’ll have to try again.

I’ve been hearing good things about https://spacebar.chat/. Stoat (formerly Revolt) is out there as well. Matrix is another possibility, but it’s more for individual channels rather than whole servers, so doesn’t fit some use cases.

I get it, but if bigger projects don’t move to alternatives, those alternatives have a lot less pressure to evolve. If a big project bites the bullet and moves, then there are more technically minded folks with a vested interest in making the platform better.

The interesting thing here is that to maintain a trademark, you have to defend it, or you lose it. I’d think that would mean he’s going to have to get litigious and start suing anything that looks like it violates his trademarks.

While Snowflake is a pretty cool and worthwhile extension to run, I don’t think having a proxied connection to Tor will help Iranians if they just don’t have an Internet connection at all.

Gotcha, that makes sense to me; cheers.

I am, yeah. Like I say, I’m just not understanding what they’re suggesting Cloudflare should be doing differently in this case, other than not invoking Vance and Musk (which granted is pretty gross to do).

So your argument is that one of the biggest DNS resolvers should just bow to censorship imposed by a single nation? I’m not really getting what you think they should be doing about Italy’s demand. Are you saying they should just pay the fines and keep doing business there?

It reads to me like they’re being responsible and not bowing to censorship; seems very similar to PornHub’s approach to age verification laws. What would be a better course of action here, in your view?