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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts | Fortune (fortune.com)

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Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

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[–] Vieric@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In a few months they will try again with "a completely different and 100% trusted group with no ties whatsoever to Persona and/or Peter Thiel". By which I mean the exact same fucking company acting through a proxy. Don't let this theater prevent you from leaving to a better platform. It's still coming, they just want to wait for people to get complacent again.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No no next time it'll be a Palantir front

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Is Perdona not already a Palantir front?

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What's the better platform that everyone should leave to? I looked into Stoat the other day but its obvious they aren't currently equipped to handle the influx of traffic they're getting, and a lot of dev work still needs to be done.

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

I switched to Matrix (Element client). Works fine but I have my eyes also on Movim (XMPP) https://movim.eu/

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Matrix. Federated and self hostable, open source, supports encryption

[–] Vieric@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Matrix would be my own, personal suggestion as well. I didn't name names in my original comment because I didn't want anyone to feel pigeonholed into something, the most important thing right now is simply getting yourselves safe if you need to. But yes, if you want a suggestion, Matrix is probably the best idea for all the reasons above. Plus, you are free to use any Matrix supported client, I admit pickings are a little slim in terms of variety on the front of clients atm, there are a few but they are functionally largely identical currently. But hopefully that will change in time, faster if the standard gets more popular.

[–] RalfWausE@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IRC

Its mature, it can handle a bazillion users and is really lightweight. And with a nice front-end like "The Lounge" it can also look fancy.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can stream video and voice over IRC?

[–] RalfWausE@feddit.org -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, but who needs that in a chat? For that you can use something like Jitsi.

[–] whatsisface@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's like half the reason people use discord.

[–] RalfWausE@feddit.org -1 points 2 days ago

Sooo... what about telling those people that they should learn to use the right tool for the job?

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

They can kiss my producer's butt, as he's left Discord in 2020. He seemingly saw the writing on the wall for that, but had no clue at the time.