Lead a Discord Exodus with a Matrix Server

What happened

This past spring, Discord’s unpopular decision to force age verification resulted in a brief flash-in-the-pan of outrage that dissipated when they promised to delay its roll-out. One of the options to deal with this is to migrate over to something like a Matrix server, which has a number of benefits over Discord including being open-source and self-hostable.

The Internet, and large groups of people in general, tend to have a remarkably short collective memory. Whether it’s the nature of algorithms or the people themselves to always be chasing the next novelty, maintaining long-term engagement for even relatively small changes can be challenging.

Distractions abound, and motivation tends to fade over time. Rather than backtrack on unpopular policies , they’ve been slowly boiling the frog with incremental changes towards this same goal in the meantime.