Ranked Choice Voting and Matrix

Article written by Moose. This blog post has been on my to do list for a while now - as far as I can tell, this started back in February of this year (2026). Simple Chats, a Discord channel largely made up of folks from Bear Blog, wanted to open a discussion about if we should move off of Discord, or stay. This conversation started because of Discord's announcement to roll out age verification. We also had plenty of alternatives to try out, thanks to Kami. I wanted to talk about this process a bit. Getting Started First, we had to figure out where to possibly go to. As I mentioned, thanks to Kami we had a few alternatives already set up to try, but we also tried a few others people suggested. I put together a list of the pros and cons I could see for each one, with the idea that if people didn't want to try them all themselves, they could read the pros and cons list. You can view below the list I put together, if you're interested. The suggestions we had were an IRC Server, Matrix,…