Regarding discord's new policy
I know we're all trying to figure out where to go if we're not comfortable with this and there's been multiple suggestions which makes it harder for people to stay together, but as someone who's been looking for months i want to throw a hat in the ring
Fluxer app has a good privacy policy and is almost up to par with discord in terms of features. Their "nitro" is cheaper and better. They're also currently offering a limited amount of one-time lifetime memberships. On privacy, they do not use your data for marketing/advertising purposes or to train AI. They keep their servers running by *not* mass archiving - ie, uploads have an expiry date which resets upon viewing so many times, otherwise it's wiped. So they are not sitting on a massive pile of data. It's sustainable. Your uploads are scanned for the purpose of blocking and reporting CSAM, and that's it.
Their privacy policy *did not* answer every question I had, but many of the alternatives didn't even try.
Look at it this way. Element/matrix has a bit of a barrier to entry. Many other apps are designed for work environments. Stoat developers are in no way prepared for mass migration and have never considered stoat as a replacement for discord - they are a very small team. It is also still quite buggy and the security of the app is questionable.
As far as discord servers that are used like wikis - it should *never* have been that way - it's not publicly searchable and discord was never meant as a cloud storage service. It could go poof at any time.
Genuinely, I think Fluxer is our best option. That's where I'll be.
