So I was in a Shota related Discord server and it was recently hit by a report causing multiple people to have their accounts be put at risk or straight up banned. Now thankfully well my account wasn't banned it was restricted and put that risk. I come to you dear readers as I have recently picked up a brand new creative projekt that relates a lot to Shotas, and Shotacons, so I ask you all this: what are some Discord alternatives that allow for the discussion of Shota and the sharing of Shota media.

No offense, but wouldn't people naming alternative places openly just lead to more reports? Loli/shota is always contentious, that was bound to happen.

He wants to know about platforms that allow it.

Read that again. If anyone names an alternative, that person or those people are burning the spot. This place is infiltrated by not just those who dislike the genre, but it's full of feds whose job is to investigate for possible criminal activity.

His/her mistake is using Discord. That place is infested with ugly ass people who don't allow that genre to begin with.

Operating a communications platform requires money. Not just money over time to pay for servers and such, it requires a lot of upfront investment developing the software and building the infrastructure for it. This necessitates getting funding from somewhere, and getting funding from somewhere necessitates following the rules given by those providing the funding, whether it be literal terms in a contract or as nebulous as investors seeing what you're planning and not investing in it because they find it objectionable and/or don't want their name associated with it. I can tell you that someone trying to start up a new communications platform without their terms of service and/or community guidelines specifically prohibiting that content will have a difficult time getting funding.

Your best bet is probably IRC, which rather than being a communications platform is a protocol defined by the IETF. You may need to set up your own IRC server, but there are many free open-source options for server software available. Since you're planning to set this up to be for a specific project rather than to be a general communications platform, that means that you can size the server to your needs. You may even be able to run it on your home computer, depending on how many people you expect to be using it at any given time. However, there are some things to keep in mind. The IRC specification was written when dial-up was the most widespread form of internet. As such, quickly sharing media was not something that was expected and designed into it. There is no official support for embedding media into IRC chatrooms. To share media over IRC, you must either upload it to a web server and post a link, which must then be clicked to view the media as it will not embed in the chat, or send the file directly to a user via a peer-to-peer protocol. Both of these directly expose your users to potentially being identified - the peer-to-peer protocol involves two users directly connecting to each other, which directly exposes both IP addresses, and if you set up a webserver that logs what IP addresses access a particular link and then use that server to link to files, you can collect IP address information. There also is no way for you, the server owner, to vet any files or links before they are accessible to anyone connected to your server to make sure that they are safe. IRC also does not allow users to receive any messages that were sent while they weren't connected. While the server may be set up to keep text logs in the background, the IRC protocol does not support those logs being sent to a user's client as they connect; it only sends messages out to the connected clients as they come in. Finally, operating the server yourself makes you potentially personally liable for anything that may happen on it.

Despite all of this, IRC is probably your best option. Which is to say, you don't really have any good options.

Matrix has servers for loli and shota content (without many people that are not easily discoverable). There are fediverse spaces for Lolisho which are also hard to get into. Those are your options.

well servers is not actually a correct thing to call the matrix spaces. they're just big group chats without structure.

Christ I aged 10 years re reading what IRC was like.

Same. Or rather, I just suddenly noticed that I was already old...

Literally none of this has been helpful, in fact quite the opposite.