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I use Matrix, but it’s more of a general chat app than a Discord replacement. If you’re looking for something closer to Discord, I’ve heard of Revolt, but haven’t tried it much myself.
I’ve tried Revolt before and it is pretty cool. It also has some things that Discord does not have without modifications, like custom CSS that you can use. One missing feature that for me is a game breaker, was that there is no built-in gif search. But most likely this will follow in the future.
An alternative to Revolt that would be interesting to keep an eye on would be Spacebar (formerly known as Fosscord). It does sound promising from their GitHub Readme, but I did not test it yet.
Spacebar is still not compatible to discord’s current-and-ever-changing API even today.
Revolt does have an gif service called https://gifbox.me/ but it isn’t implemented in the current client yet (hopefully the rewrite does!).
