Have not uses this so I can't speak to their viability, but there's also @root
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Like I mentioned in a similar post, please look at this alternative: https://stoat.chat/
Does this still require you to 'call' people to be in a voice channel? Or is it now similar to discord in that you join a channel and can hear anyone in it?
Seams cool, but why not matrix since matrix has different instances you can chose from.
forgot to add that one, my other post did include Matrix as well :)
Well, time to dump Discord after I finish school.
I'm not against age restrictions, but letting every site brew their own method is a really bad idea. I'm not going to upload my legal ID to every random site; that's a recipe for identity theft, and it's a really bad idea to teach people that that's normal or acceptable.
And age guessing through facial recognition is incredibly unreliable. My 16 year old son has already been accepted as 18+ somewhere. I had a full moustache at 14. Others are blessed with a babyface well into their 30s.
The only right way to do this, is if governments provide their citizens with an eID that any site can ask "is this person 18+?" and get an accurate answer without any other identifiable info. And if you don't want the government to know what sites you visit, have sites route the request through a proxy.
But instead everybody's got to cobble together their own improvised system that we just have to trust blindly is not going to sell our data.
And if you don't want the government to know what sites you visit, have sites route the request through a proxy.
Actually, no on the fly communication with the issuer is required for selective disclose. You just need a signed document with individually salted hashes of different properties and you can create a zero knowledge proof non-interactively. Zero knowledge meaning that truely nothing but the disclosed property (age > 18, County == DE, or whatever) is communicated to anyone.
Theres a lot of other cool stuff that can be done with zero knowledge digital identity wallets. You could for example hash your pubkey together with the service providers pk and disclose that as a per service ID, but not reveal your pk. This allows linkability within one service (as a login method for example) while preventing cross service linkability.
Best thing you can do with discord? Uninstall it.
Its Joever
Discord is kill
What about Fractal? It even have a flatpak https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal
Fractal is not multiplatform (i.e. isn't available on Android and on iOS) and Matrix can be confusing to people not already familiar with it.
And no, a wall of text explaining what Matrix is won't help since most of Discord's users are teenagers with a very short attention span that don't read much (unless they're forced to by school).
Potential solution, may be controversial.
Just add a vertical video with Minecraft parkour or with CS surf on the bottom and a half naked woman from a freelance platform explaining what it is.
There are also Element and SchildiChat as alternative clients.
Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed
Yeah, you go ahead & do that, & watch how many people will jump ship to other alternatives while you lose a lot of money & subscriptions, especially when you’ve been hacked before.
People have found other alternatives to TikTok, & they’ll do the same with Discord.
i wouldn't be so optimistic. normies have a tendency to accept quite a lot.
I hope for once people would get together and drop Discord so that Discord would have to reverse this policy. So often, we the customers really have the power if we get together and act together. All these social networks are nothing without the contributions of the customers.
without the contributions of the ~~customers~~
Without the contributions of the product.
As the adage goes, if you're not paying for it (and often even when you are), you're not the customer.
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I’m never doing this. I’ll pay someone else to verify my account before I upload my dox with these assholes.
I’m fine switching to an alternative, but I have seen no gaming companies linking anything else for their official “forums”
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I don't trust discord with what little I formation I've gave them so far. Definitely not giving them my ID or a scan of my face.
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Lol, no thanks. I deleted this trash years ago and wish companies would stop using it for tech and customer support. “Join our discord channel!” - no.
Same here.
Finally my chance to quit?
Idk
That's a no go from here...
However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.>
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Dude my dnd campaign is run on Discord what the fuck. Do I need to start hosting open source voice and video chat?
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is there a practical way to delete all your messages at once?
personally i'd also backup the messages before deleting, this works well https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
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in other news: next month i will be attempting to bypass discord's "AI" powered security features. I expect to overcome them in 4 minutes with a pic of an ID i found on the internet
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On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.
Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.
Still a no for me for now, but a bit misleading: https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally
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