It's time to leave Discord!

With Discord ensuring it's own destruction, between collecting user ID's, to massive machine learning on it's users, to probable ties to palantir beyond what they claim, I'm done with Discord.

Over the years, I've moved from IRC, to many platforms that used XMPP (Google talk, MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo, Facebook, probably more), to Skype, to Discord, and I even tried to like Matrix on the way. While Matrix never fit the bill for me for several reasons, XMPP seems to have what I'm looking for, so that's where I'll be with the death of Discord.

So how do you reach me now?

I'm glad you asked. I'm currently running my own XMPP server! I welcome anyone here to join it by shooting me a message anywhere you currently have contact with me. If you can't get in contact the usual ways, please send an email to help AT kdb424.xyz. Please format that as an email, I'm trying to prevent spam, which is why it's formatted that way.

If you want to get a client downloaded to connect to the chat server while waiting for me to make you an account, I've blogged about those here.

If you're already on xmpp, or already have an account.

I'm on IRC as katelin AT kittie.gay and the same as with emails, please use the @ symbol, and no spaces. It's formatted the same as an email. The XMPP server federates with other servers, so I should be able to chat with you anywhere! Just don't forget to mention to me who you are, as I have historically been spammed on chat services in general, and am used to ignoring people.