Matrix at least has potential for the UX to improve especially with vibecoding being a thing now, Discord will always be a bloated laggy locked-down Electron mess with no public API and hostility to third party clients and automation tools
Just log in with a third party client where people in the Issues are complaining about being banned. Or use your Discord token and spam their API with illegal calls until they ban your account
Matrix is sort of a mishmash of things, not a fan of the UX but it has federation and encryption and isn't Discord, and also has bridges to various platforms
That doesn't look like clarification to me. It explicitly mentions sexual content then gives a vague "age-restricted themes" and "18+ content" that they can apply arbitrarily like YouTube did with "Hind's Hall"
This here says that Discord can automatically age-restrict channels and specifically mentions channels focused on sexual content in a different section, implying that this is not the only "mature" topic they will age restrict.
Youtube age restricts pro-Palestine stuff and the government age restricts the Epstein files, so I can imagine this would target political or LGBTQ spaces, which are some of the worst spaces to require ID for. There's a local political server I'm in, which due to this I'm strongly urging to migrate to Matrix with Discord bridges, and am offering to help with.
It's harmful to everyone not just children, and so is Instagram. This sounds like more mandatory ID propaganda given how the government won't stop the most obvious of pedophile sex traffickers.
Edit: It literally is:
Of course, if TikTok is removed, many children will just move to TikTok’s competitors: Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. This is why it’s so important for countries to follow Australia’s lead: raise the age for opening social media accounts to 16 and require the companies to enforce it.
I agree that they should start posting on Mastodon/Bluesky, this is an issue I've noticed with every socialist or adjacent org in my area with a social media presence. I wouldn't say that leaving Twitter is a good idea though, it's still popular and I've talked with leftists who told me they browse it because it's a lot more culturally diverse and they thought Mastodon/Bluesky was too homogeneously west-centric and liberal.
There's a lot of issues with their technology stack, but using popular social media platforms to make themselves known isn't one of them. Although it would be good if they had Mastodon accounts also so that people addicted to Instagram or whatever wouldn't relapse because they wanted to get information from them.
msmtp can be used to easily script SMTP calls, and the malicious actor can keep getting aliases until their account gets banned, although getting a new alias probably is more challenging than getting a new IP address.
The one in my city uses Google Forms for this sort of stuff and calls over unencrypted channels, so be careful (and there were other organizations in the area that had much better opsec)
It is practically a boycott though, since a purpose of a boycott is to avoid something that is unethical. With veganism you're refusing to purchase (or obtain in other ways, but 99% of people purchase) products that involve animal exploitation. For BDS you're refusing to purchase products that involve Palestinian exploitation. For most others you're refusing to purchase products that involve other forms of human exploitation like slave labor, like with the chocolate industry, battery mining, sweatshops, etc. (Nestle being a common example)
An issue with boycotts in general is that people are constantly talking about what not to do and not what to do alternatively or the specifics on how to get there. Eventually it makes you realize that literally anything you do will cause someone to get genocided or abused somewhere, and when they way out isn't clear or straightforward, now you're overwhelmed with thousands of things you hate that you do and have to figure out how to change on your own one by one, and those changes result in new problems that overwhelm you or turn out to also be unethical and you have to change them yet again. And in the end you hate yourself because your change attempts made you miserable while you're still doing doing harmful things and other people hate you because you're still causing genocides and the rest think you're an idiot or a hypocrite for trying at all, while meanwhile everyone else around you is just enjoying themselves and not giving a fuck, and you'll always be a terrible person anyways so you might as well give up.
I think if more people instead of saying "don't do this" instead said "do this instead" when they talked about what to boycott and why, that would help with harm reduction a lot more.
Matrix at least has potential for the UX to improve especially with vibecoding being a thing now, Discord will always be a bloated laggy locked-down Electron mess with no public API and hostility to third party clients and automation tools