Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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Good that there are alternatives but I bet that won't last for long. More and more apps will copy this.
Or just get bought out. Discord was supposed to be the answer to Twitch getting gobbled up. Then Microsoft gobbled Discord.
Does anyone seriously believe there's an indie third party social media site immune to a multi-million (possibly even billion) dollar buyout offer? One that won't go the way of TikTok and be legislatively forced into sale?
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Or just get bought out. Discord was supposed to be the answer to Twitch getting gobbled up. Then Microsoft gobbled Discord.
Does anyone seriously believe there's an indie third party social media site immune to a multi-million (possibly even billion) dollar buyout offer? One that won't go the way of TikTok and be legislatively forced into sale?
i mean… i will pay the license for it, AND i have to self host it, so they have a monetary scheme that will delay the need for enshitification. but it’s 5$ or something, and reportedly has better audio quality, faster transfer rates, and lower overhead then discord. and because i am hosting it, i will have complete control over it and its white list
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Ol Toothless, that's his name
ben afflek's lost sibling
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Tom from MySpace needs to have a second coming.
SpaceHey exists, but just like the old internet moderation is a problem in that site (lots of harassing)
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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?
it depends, what features do your group need? only voicechat? mumble will do
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I mean, let me know when it does. I'll hang out with the Teenager Lock enabled and keep my biometrics to myself.
But there's no point changing social media ecosystems if nobody I know is in the new site.
What is teenager lock? How can I safely engage with this stuff idek
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Not really. At the beginning it was amazing. It took 0 resources to run while gaming and the call quality was miles ahead, nevermind the flexibility around servers and what you could do with them.
Then, as all things, it turned to shit once ot gained market share.
One of the most predictable outcomes of anyone or anything downfall is all the idiots coming out of the woodwork to loudly proclaim that they never liked it to begin with and actually saw this coming the whole time because they are so very super smart
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I'm fine with not talking about police brutality on discord. I used it when I was contributing to some open source projects and no one talked about gender or politics there. People with different needs should probably switch.
you don't need to talk about gender to be porno for them, you just need to exist as a queer
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Age verification is not mandatory. Unless you want to browse NSFW content. You can ignore age verification and keep browsing adult content somewhere else.
I believe many would not verify themselves, groups that do adult content would lose majority of user base. So they would move somewhere else where I assume their user base would follow.
you are really naive if you think nsfw/adult content is just porn
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Have you considered self hosting Matrix?
yea, but with the video streaming team speak seems better equipped for gameing, at the cost of the federated capability of martix, but i am not sure what these benefits would be
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you don't need to talk about gender to be porno for them, you just need to exist as a queer
How will they know I'm queer?
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What is teenager lock? How can I safely engage with this stuff idek
What is teenager lock?
Discord locks your account to the security level considered appropriate for a teenager.
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If it's clunky, then it does not do it well for most users. All features might even work well individually, but the user experience is very important too for less tech-savvy people.
It is no more clunky than discord was a couple years ago. Setting up a server is very clunky, but the average Joe doesn’t have to do it.
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How will they know I'm queer?
they are data brokers that's easy for them
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What is teenager lock? How can I safely engage with this stuff idek
Discord has some information about it in their press release about this:
https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally
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They got scared when a full revolution started in discord channels.
Anyone have a FOSS with screen share / group service?
Keep in mind the Charlottesville protest was organized in part on discord. Not saying that's a good reason to give up privacy, but its not just good faith actors using it. Also telling parents to do better doesn't exactly stop grooming and abuse of minors overnight.
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they are data brokers that's easy for them
So you're saying that they have a list of emails that belong to queer people and if a person with one of those emails registers and joins a server the entire server will automatically require age verification? No idea if that's true. I guess we'll find out.
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You do know that it's bullshit? Unless they're incredibly incompetent they're lying to you. If the data never leaves the client then all the checks are client-side, which means it's relatively easy (compared to a server side check) to bypass those checks.
For a while (maybe even still, I haven't kept up with it) you could unlock paid features with a modded client, so they absolutely have a history of using client-side verification.
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I found it on linux
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The general comment and title is simply untrue. They will require verification in cases of known adult or censored content, and in NSFW channels and servers. "Regular" content and spaces are untouched.
That said, I give it 6-10 months before it's required for all users regardless of content access.
This includes a lot of harm reduction servers (especially drug related ones like the TripSit one, who help a lot of people every day and probably even save some lives), and having you need to send in your face or ID to access potentially life saving harm reduction info on illegal things is just the opposite of how harm reduction should work.
Sure, there’s still websites with these features, but discord was originally meant to be a safe space for everyone (including people who need help) and this just adds an extra barrier.
