European alternatives to Discord

Discover European-built tools you can use instead of Discord.

Discord is the default chat platform for communities and gaming, but it's a US company with no real privacy guarantees for the messages flowing through it. If you want voice, text and channels without handing everything to a US platform, the European alternatives below cover the same ground. Some are open source and self-hostable, so you control the server outright. Others are simply hosted in the EU under GDPR. Either way you keep the channel-based structure people are already used to.