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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
Its Joever
Well this is horrid. Must we really all go back to TeamSpeak?
Why did we leave it?
teamspeak 4 felt like it was in the stone age while discord had a bunch of cool ass features for chatting outside of voice. it also was much more appealing to casuals by being free to use and super easy to set up your own server, whereas setting up your own teamspeak server involved portforwarding and whatnot that turns off the vast majority of “normies”
We left it mostly because there were better services out there + the UI was considered outdated and all. But personally, I’d rather take the outdated UI than have my data stolen.
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.
Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed
is there a practical way to delete all your messages at once?
undiscord is good.
Dude my dnd campaign is run on Discord what the fuck. Do I need to start hosting open source voice and video chat?
it’s fine as long as you dont have the server marked as 18+
also, supposedly they will be having an ai determine people who are 18+ so you might not even need to upload anything
still, if this leaves too sour of a taste in your mouth the alternatives i can think of off the top of my head are: teamspeak (although i dont think they have teamspeak 6 server files available yet?), riot! (now called stoat apparently?), mumble, matrix, and jitsi meet
oh yeah if you’re ok seperating the chat and voice app i really like deltachat for chatting in the group
We need something like what Lemmy is to Reddir, except for discord. A decentralized application with multiple instances that users can join.
I have a discord server of about ~1K members, and would love to spin up a docker container to host my own instance that users can join. Chat, voice/ video calls, video streaming, etc. I’d love to support a FOSS project like this. Maybe even have E2E while we’re at it!
Good old Teamspeak. Everyone can host his own server.
Closest I can think of is Matrix. Element isn’t bad.
Matrix is tge way, and element is the best so far, but it needs more work.
Stoat (formerly called Revolt) is potentially that. I tried it a while back and it was still rough around the edges, but the potential was there. Open source and has potential for self hosting.
Stoat.chat
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
customersWithout 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.
We should append this, …" or it is open source"
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.
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”
Minecraft.wiki links to Zulip…
Goodbye Discord.
Hello Matrix!
Matrix isn’t that good from an usability standpoint as it looks a lot like IRC
LOL! That’s so true! Even I have trouble navigating.
Usability is good in my opinion. They’ve spent a lot of time on the UI over the past couple years. The mobile Element X apps are excellent now IMO. But the two things that prevent matrix/Element from being a good discord replacement are:
- No Mumble-like voice chat. They have Zoom-like conference calling now, but no voice channels.
- Search is either non-existent (mobile clients) or is awful. It’s somehow worse than Discord’s search! I know it’s because the search needs to work on-device because of E2EE, but unfortunately it’s still a minus point vs Discord.
Honestly, the best solution to 1 may be to simply deploy mumble in addition to matrix (or other chat apps).
Seconding this, just use mumble. It’s self-hosted free and open source software, easy on resources, provides very low latency, and it’s very stable and reliable.
The client might look a little dated but I still love it. I don’t care for stupid electron apps, which every modern application seems to be.
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.
But they pinky promise the face scan is not facial recognition and that it’s immediately deleted and never leaves your device.
Considering the recent “third-party” data breach cases…
More info for those unfamiliar:
Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed, which our vendor used to review age-related appeals.
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.>
that’s probably not much better though. nothing good will come from discord scanning and judging everything we say on it.
