Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
-
I'm sure they're very sowwy and have learned their lesson and your face and ID and personal, private browsing habits will be perfectly secure, and even the AI bot that will "monitor your habits to decide your implicit age" will be very quiet with all your sensitive personal details and not give it to anyone even if they ask very nicely for it.
Unless they offer discord $2
If they force me to verify, I'm done
-
Unless they offer discord $2
If they force me to verify, I'm done
Like I said, they don't actually need to. You're going to have your own silent buddy watching everything you do!
-
This post did not contain any content.
Any active Matrix spaces anyone can recommend to me? I joined a few from the public directory but they all seem dead.
-
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?
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?
federated platforms
-
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?
federated platforms
Federation is easy. BlueSky is federated, ffs. You think Jack Dorsey would be shy about selling his Twitter knock-off a second time?
-
Matrix is great for this. Fluffy chat is a client that even uses jitsi for video chats
For others who are interested:
-
I see luck with "combos"
XMPP + Mumble is a common one. The room is on XMPP, some users are in a mumble server with info in the topic.
Matrix is buggy and doesn't scale imo, it isn't a sustainable alternative. Stoat looks like a great option and there are lots of open instances.
Matrix is buggy and doesn’t scale imo,
I don't know what problems you found, but the biggest bugs I encountered in past years seem to be fixed now, at least on recent clients. (Element X is recent, and I've seen praise for FluffyChat.)
Matrix for text and Mumble for voice works well for me.
-
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.
Careful: Discord misuses the word "server" to mean community, so a lot of Discord users here might misunderstand and think you just said the average Joe doesn't need to set up a community. (Of course, I'm sure you actually mean the average Joe doesn't need to set up his own homeserver instance, which is true.)
Discord term Matrix term server space channel room discord.com homeserver (there are many) -
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?
My TTRPG groups use Matrix for text and Mumble for voice. This arrangement works pretty well.
We don't use video, so I can't vouch for that. The Matrix client called Element currently does it using Jitsi, and there's a new approach in development that will eventually be supported by more Matrix clients: https://call.element.io/
-
Federation is easy. BlueSky is federated, ffs. You think Jack Dorsey would be shy about selling his Twitter knock-off a second time?
Bluesky is poorly federated
Lemmy is excellently federated:
- Its users are split across many instances with no majority
- Lemmy, PieFed, and other instance software exists, preventing anyone from seizing control of the network software
