Good to see

I'm fascinated by Discord discourse because I think a lot of folks just aren't getting it

Back in the day:
Forums provided slow, searchable, referencable, detailed and categorised async comms, largely publicly, nurtured by admins and mods
IRC provided fast, synchronous, minimal and mostly ephemeral comms, largely privately and nurtured by admins and mods.
TS/Vent provided instant, completely ephemeral and private comms, usually gated by IRC access.

Think about what Discord provides.

Time for a #discord alternatives thread, for no particular reason.

I've actually been looking into all available options for the past few weeks for other reasons, so here's a thread to share what I've found.

In particular I'm looking for stuff with:
* Data sovereignty
* Strong moderation tools
* Wide platform support

Hopefully this gives everyone else some ideas too, and feel free to chime in with corrections, suggestions or anything else!