[immibis]

You can run your own Revolt, Mattermost, or Rocket Chat server, which is basically Discord.

[sneak]

If you believe this you haven’t used Discord very much.

[Nextgrid]

You are right, neither of his proposed alternatives start you out with a sea of blinking shit and distractions all over your screen.

[johnisgood]

and Zulip. But they do not support video and audio calls, for one.