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?
You can use Revolt Chat (revolt.chat). It’s fully open source and free!
If revolt did federation so my friends could join my server from others that would make it a straight up replacement, but I can’t ask my friends to create a login for each server. I hope they bump that in priority because it’s the last thing I need to switch