Here's your discord alternative, bro

This
My homeserver was completely unaffected and so were most other people I talk to
On the other hand, whenever Discord has an outrage (usualy 15 minutes to an hour), the entire thing doesn't work and can't talk to anyone
matrix.org is not worth using in the first place because it's way overloaded and slow, plus they plan to shut it down sometime in the future

matrix.org is one server and was compromised due to bad practice and a lack of security sense on top of an exploit in continuous integration. Other Matrix homeserver providers, like riot.kiwifarms.net and halogen.chat remained online and uncompromised. That's how a federation works. Get out of here with that weak shit OP.

You can run an instance of the frontend anywhere. I literally run my own instance of both matrix and riot and use it to hook it up to my friends' instance.

IRC bro

> discord alternative
> matrix
really makes you think how someone could make an alternative service to irc and for it to be much worse. only zoomer/millennial faggots can make that feat possible.

irc is still king, everything else is still absolute cancer. it truly is wonderful.

The irc channels ive been to are crazy dead. 9999 idle. The only exceptions are the servers for private trackers that haven't switched to dicksword.

depends on what your interest is and what network you're on. im in quite a few channels that have a minimum of 100 or more, though not everyone is active all the time (jobs, life etc.etc.) some of the busier channels have thousands, especially the file serving bot networks.
>The only exceptions are the servers for private trackers that haven't switched to dicksword.
they're not going to move to that shit-tier service because there is zero privacy and security and dicksword will be the first to hand over info to the cops if requested. any torrent site that isn't retarded will stick to using irc, preferably their own irc server or a torrent-site-friendly irc server.

who cares
why are you using matrix's own servers

IRC isn't federated and thus isn't relevant. We don't need more centralized networks these days, open protocols or not.

Abandonware garbage