Konnichiwa!

For those who are unaware, my good friend and fellow Paint admin NotNotStormie made a 3DSiPaint Revolt server, which currently (as of August 31st 2025 at around 19:45 EDT) has 9 members, including myself, NotNotStormie, and DCTheGamr.

Unfortunately, unlike the 3DSiPaint Discord server, Stormie's Revolt server has been incredibly inactive. This partly makes sense given that the 3DSiPaint Discord server (at present) has 68 members, but when one also takes into consideration that the few members who joined Stormie's Revolt server are among the more active Discord users, it still doesn't quite make sense.

For many years now, I have complained about people “abandoning Paint” and going over to Discord instead, and that whole (arguably misguided) crusade of mine historically focused primarily on older Paint members who left Paint to go to spend their time on the Friends of SDKPaint Discord server—AKA “SDKcord”—and/or the Rubber Ducks The Third Discord server (good luck getting invited to either of those now), due to the perceived negative impact that it was having on the level of activity here on Paint. However, ever since the establishment of the 3DSiPaint Discord server last December, it has consistently been drawing activity away from my own Ryuusei no Tami Discord server and other smaller Paint-affiliated Discord servers that were popular among newer Paint members, and on at least a couple of occasions, it seemed to be diverting attention away from Paint itself as well.

Now, I could make all sorts of controversial statements here about why I think this or that Paint-affiliated Discord community is more or less “toxic” than another—and I obviously have some rather strong opinions about these things—but aside from all of that, there is a more basic question that needs tp be asked here: why the heck are we all using Discord anyway?

Discord is known to record all information on its platform.[3] It specifically states on its website that it collects users' email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, names, IP addresses, device data, tracking data, chat messages, voice chat, images, videos, drafts, files, custom emojis, voice recordings, live stream information, payment information, logs of other open apps, and third-party data.[4] On their website, it also claims that this information can be sent over to law enforcement.[5] Through email, it has been confirmed that Discord receives government requests for user information.[6]

Source

By comparison, this is Paint's privacy policy:

Some aspects of these websites are stored or logged indefinitely in databases or flat files to either enhance future experiences or to allow public displays of content. Members are responsible for their own public and private content. All member information is kept confidential from third parties unless publicly provided by the members themselves.

Of course, many people may not care about any of this stuff. I mean, why should you care if some creep at the NSA is looking through all of your chat messages, right lol?

The thing is, if all of the cool features that Discord has and that Paint lacks—such as voice chat, emoji reactions, etc.—strike your fancy, there are better alternatives to Discord out there. In particular, Revolt and Element X.

Regarding Revolt, unlike Discord, Revolt is open source, and they are also based in the EU, which has far better online privacy laws than the US does. Discord's privacy policy can be read here, and Revolt's can be read here.


Good luck getting anything on Discord to look this cool, lol!

Additionally, much like Paint, Revolt can be customized using CSS, and you can also use a banner image on your profile on Revolt without having to pay money for “Nitro” to do so like you do on Discord.

Revolt has all of the main features that Discord has. There are different servers, you can send DMs, you can voice chat, you can react to messages with emojis, etc., etc., but without all of the creepy spying on you. So if you're using Discord RN and not using Revolt, then why not join Revolt and then join NotNotStormie's 3DSiPaint Revolt server?
(Are you THAT against using a better version of Discord that doesn't sell your data to the NSA for a few shekels?)

Another even better alternative (from a privacy perspective, anyway) is Element. Just like Revolt, Element is open source, but unlike Revolt or Discord, Element uses end-to-end encryption, and it gives you complete control over your own data.

It is also worth mentioning here that I have my own Ryuusei no Tami room on Element, although it currently only has 5 members: me, UwUQueen, JinxCade, GalacticGam3r37, and NotNotStormie.

Anyway, IG my main poimt here is that y'all SERIOUSLY need to quit being normies and join our dang Revolt and Element groups. If you need help figuring out how to do it or whatever just leave a comment on this blog or DM me and I'll tell you exactly what you need to do to start using both platforms yourselves, and the same goes for if you want an invite to my Element group.

Sayonara!