A short course for creators and community leads who want to understand what “private” actually means before they move their people off Discord.

You will learn:

• Why Discord’s 2026 ID verification changes the risk for communities
• The difference between TLS and end-to-end encryption
• How AES-GCM-256 channel encryption and ECDH P-256 DMs work in practice
• What a WebRTC TURN relay can and cannot see
• How to evaluate Discord alternatives on encryption, identity, and community features

Includes a knowledge check at the end. Written from Recline’s open-source implementation, not from a privacy-policy slogan.