@incublus is the host of the Friday Live show in Ecency Discord and he had to cancel his show because he is in Turkey. @Ecency devs will be working on an alternative, but it will take time.
You could use IRC it's free and you can setup a channel on https://libera.chat/; of course, the only downside is there are no frills like emojis although you can use ascii ones if you know how. image source
It can still be done via VPN, although anyone trying it will probably need to mess about with DNS, and your average user won't have the skillset.
I'm counting on Ecency to come up with a way to host our own Live events.
You could use IRC it's free and you can setup a channel on https://libera.chat/; of course, the only downside is there are no frills like emojis although you can use ascii ones if you know how.
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