As a gamer, Discord is my most difficult to replace anti privacy platform. It is “the social media for gamers™” after all.
I’ve tried Matrix many times, and every server I’ve joined has felt dead. I couldn’t find many gaming centric communities there either, and absolutely none that had any activity.
Do you still use Discord or have you successfully replaced it?
I don’t play games, so I don’t have such problems - maybe a little bit of mobile games and casual RPG grinding simulator. But if it’s about open-source communities, I use Matrix exclusively. Using IRC is annoying, but I do use it sometimes.