User is looking for a Discord alternative due to the platform's enshittification, cosmetic BS, and potential face identification requirement. They want something that is user-friendly and not full of unnecessary features.
Discord might very soon ask for Face identification regardless of your region. i've been using discord since 2015, so for about a decade now, it was great ar first because it did everything teamspeak did but better and for free, and in a much more user friendly way, it was a fresh concept for gamers by gamers. As the plaform quickly grew, nitro was introduced, then more and more "fun" features. fast forward to today, now discord is full of cosmetic BS and is enshittifying itself very very fast, seeing this global face scanning thing is just the drop that's pushing me away from it, about two years ago i left wondows 11 for linux for similar reason, enshittification. What discord alternatives are there even? are there ones that are actually decent? the best I've seen is Guilded, and potentially Zulip (Professionally oriented) i am tired of great products turning from great to assjuice in a decade so.