> We are also currently working on a privacy-focused alternative called Kloak, which is in its very early alpha stage. We would greatly appreciate your feedback on areas for improvement and any expectations you may have for the platform.

Doesn't Matrix essentially satisfy all of them?

Although the bulletinboard/newsgroup feature is something that I don't know but I feel as if that can be on matrix as well.

Yes, I know Matrix is hard to host but I don't imagine discord if they release their source code to be easy either.

So for a discord-like experience, I really prefer matrix.

My only real experience with matrix was joining a community server for some program because I had a problem and couldn't get more info elsewhere. Started off that I couldn't read any past messages, I guess because encryption? Alright, so I asked my question. Come back the next day, and because my browser deletes cookies on close, I couldn't log in because I had no logged in device to confirm the login with, or something like this. Gave up. Maybe there was some recovery codes on sign up that I missed, but I always save those.

No not really, Matrix doesn't have voice rooms or game streaming.

It has voice calls and meetings but that's not the same thing and has much higher friction to use.

Discord is real time chat, I thought matrix was not? And discord comes for gaming, voice chat is a key feature