I mostly lurk here, and I know we’ve had this discussion come up a number of times since Discord’s age verification changes were announced, but I figured this video offers value for the walkthrough and comparative analysis. Like me, the video authors aren’t seasoned self-hosters, and I’ve still got a lot to learn. Stoat and Fluxer both look appealing to me for my needs, but Stoat seemingly needs self-hosted servers to route through their master server (unless I’m missing something stupid) and I replicated the 404 for Fluxer’s self-hosting documentation seen in the video, so it’s looking like I’m leaning toward a Matrix server of some kind. Hopefully everyone looking for the Discord exit ramp is closer to finding it after this video.

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    4 hours ago

    Old fashioned forums are old fashioned. Circular logic but there’s a lot holding them back.

    • Create a new account for every single niche forum? No thanks. We need a federated solution.
      • Lemmy/Piefed/etc is almost there
    • Antiquated restrictions (e.g. Log in to view images)
    • Antiquated UI - People want emojis, reactions, rich media, etc
    • PHP paid the bills once upon a time but now it’s hard to get anyone excited to make big new features for forum software