Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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Hope this will mass exodus into Matrix, like it happened with Twitter / X.
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Maybe this bullshit will be the spark needed to move us all off Discord. It's fine for voice-chat in games, don't get me wrong, but I HATE how its replaced forums/wikis for so many games/mods/etc. Searching disparate Discord servers is like looking for a nonferrous straw-colored needle in a haystack.
Worse, it also makes it seem like developer support that is provided through Discord needs to be always on/always available since you can be pinged on Discord 24 hours a day. Why would you do that yourself, I don't know. At least with forums you can choose to respond on your own time frame and people have less recourse to act like you should be around and available. It's just asking for higher demand from the userbase since you're chatting with them in real-time, they begin to expect real-time fast responses.
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Let's protect the children by scanning everyone's face and ID and uploading them to a server that'll get hacked five years from now.
Five years? My, aren't we optimistic.
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Hope this will mass exodus into Matrix, like it happened with Twitter / X.
Matrix will sadly never be a thing, much like XMPP never really became a thing (well, it was a thing until google pulled a play from the 90-00s era Microsoft of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). And each of those tried to replace IRC which still works and is perfectly fine.
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Hope this will mass exodus into Matrix, like it happened with Twitter / X.
How well does Matrix / Element work for screen sharing games?
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I'm on discord for piracy and modding. Sure over the years i joined a few other channels. But most foss adjacent channels have matrix bridges. idgaf. If servers required my phone number i always just left the server. Discord wont get shit.
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I would barely be okay with a bank or government website asking for this information, I sure as shit would not give it to a fucking chat app.
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Discord said I'm certified teen full rizz all drip fr what's up 67ers?
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Let's protect the children by scanning everyone's face and ID and uploading them to a server that'll get hacked five years from now.
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Discord said I'm certified teen full rizz all drip fr what's up 67ers?
That's cap.
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Hope this will mass exodus into Matrix, like it happened with Twitter / X.
As a matrix user and a former discord user (4 years ago), i can say that matrix just sucks compared to amount of features even 4 year old discord had.
Unless there will be an alternative social networks which do all the basic discord features like: large communities, channels, voice/video chats, roles, bots; and it does it all well, than nobody will move off discord.
People would rather tolerate significant anti-features if software has lots of features, than tolerate lack of features despite not having anti-features.
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Stoat it is lol (https://stoat.chat)
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Back to mumble, sigh
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That's cap.
frfr on god
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Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult
from the official release.
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For those looking for an alternative, try stoat.chat or matrix
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Maybe this bullshit will be the spark needed to move us all off Discord. It's fine for voice-chat in games, don't get me wrong, but I HATE how its replaced forums/wikis for so many games/mods/etc. Searching disparate Discord servers is like looking for a nonferrous straw-colored needle in a haystack.
Agreed. As if every company just having a subreddit wasn’t bad enough.
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The only way to get around this would be to verify your age, which Discord says can be accomplished in one of two ways. The first is to “submit a form of identification” to Discord vendors (i.e. scan your physical ID), or to use “facial age estimation.” Discord says that the latter process happens fully on-device, as “video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.” For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”
Between the features that are limiting being almost entirely things I don't want anyway (random friend invites are literally just fucking scams and ads to begin with), and the entire process being completed on-device... What is this, some slow news day? Everyone is losing their minds about this being some insane overstep like Discord is asking for a blood sample, or even a photo of your driver's license.
Don't get me wrong, fuck this age verification nonsense, but it's pretty clear this is some very specific government regulatory appeasement where Discord is attempting to avoid culpability for holding data at basically every joint possible. They already have the useful, farmable data, like geolocation, age/gender demographics and interests. They don't want our government ID. They only want a "yes" or "no" from their app.
Must be a slow news day. Everyone's blowing this up in headlines for cheap clicks.
