Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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A federation based discord would be amazing !
But still that's a big challenge as voice chat will be costly to host.
Also out of curiosity do you aim for something that would connect through the fediverse ?
Voice chat isn't inherently costly to host, usually the server acts as a broker and then people connect P2P. Do you remember jitsi? It was used as an alternative to zoom during covid, it was a webpage like Google meet where you opened a room, and people joined with the link. Actually under the good the first one that joined the room acted as a host so all voice communications never reached jitsi's servers.
Jitsi still exists btw, although I understand that a more integrated solution like matrix is preferable. Matrix IS the federated discord-like solution, although last time I read about it it had some issues with scalability and the typical foss Dev drama.
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Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.
Have they finally released screen sharing in ts6? I gotta say that the development of that project is pretty comical. Radio silence with the only communication being the community manager shitting on discord every other day while giving no updates on their own product.
Weird vibes.
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No. Recently I played a bit using a friends mumble server. And it's a friend that is already privacy conscious. But these friends are not the norm. They are the exception.
Interesting to see Teamspeak evolved but still you have to pay to host a server so that's a huge difference.
I haven't tried mumble yet.
You pay for the hosting resources yes, but you can host it anywhere. I've been playing around with it using a docker instance in my homelab.
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Have they finally released screen sharing in ts6? I gotta say that the development of that project is pretty comical. Radio silence with the only communication being the community manager shitting on discord every other day while giving no updates on their own product.
Weird vibes.
I haven't followed the development communication much, but yes, screen sharing works now. It wasn't working on wayland like 8mo ago, but I tried again a month ago and it's now working.
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I'm actually pretty happy that Discord is killing itself. Far too many people use it as an official platform for stuff like help forums.
Maybe lets go back to basic message boards that are actually searchable, etc.
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That's overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it's irrecoverable.
I think bolt cutters are faster though
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There's a disturbing amount of people thinking of the children
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And said data will never be used for fake CSAM or a library for the powerful to handpick their next victims
I hear you, but what about: it actually will be used for those things?
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What's wrong with good old fashioned data base backed message forums? There are so many implementations available, I'm sure many are FOSS, and I'm sure there's managed solutions as well. It's a mature, tested, rock solid reliable technology that has existed pretty much since the inception of the internet, and can be easily incorporated into other tools and workflows - because there is 40+ years of development work with the concept.
Seriously, why?
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This is great news! Discord shooting itself in the foot is a net positive for the whole world.
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Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.
...damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can't have nice things.
Xfire was all we ever needed.
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Yeah, no. Companies don't get to scan my face or ID. You know they are selling your data.
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Big brother, is that you?
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I never had a need for discord and never will. Good riddance.
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For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”
Just a few months ago they had a data leak which proved that they were indeed /not/ deleting documents and ID's like they had been claiming.
Granted in that case it was mostly countries that force keeping that data but, I'm sick of companies lying and saying "lol yea we defo delete the data after"
My friend is an exec there. After reading this thread bugged him to buy my software that would protect this vulnerability. They confirmed data/file never leaves the user's device. Sounds pretty safe.
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I won't even give hard drives when recycling a computer, I pull and smash myself. Last set of old drives I cut in half with bolt cutters.
I think I've never disposed of one for this reason haha
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I'm actually pretty happy that Discord is killing itself. Far too many people use it as an official platform for stuff like help forums.
Maybe lets go back to basic message boards that are actually searchable, etc.
I am of the opinion that any project that uses Discord for support, I just immediately ignore.
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I think bolt cutters are faster though
And significantly more power efficient
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They're recyclable snipped.
More like they become reusable. A lot of places that refurbish donated computers for people who need them are perpetually short on drives since so much of the hardware they get have the drives pulled.
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this is making my ttrpg group actually consider letting me host stuff for them and I'm unironically thrilled... so like, matrix is the way, right? Or should I be looking at mumble or something?
