Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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Sure.
But what are you replacing it with ?
I tried Mumble and Teamspeak in the past and it's pretty far from the same level of comfort.
Don't take that the wrong way though, I'm all for supporting open alternatives, I'm just saying you have to think about the features of the alternatives too.
I just saw something about Stoat.chat which seems like a good open source software for that application but a lot of people will have to bear the cost of self hosting these servers.
I know I will think carefully before slamming the door on discord.
I'll swap to a shared calendar and any other voice chat software. Sure I can't post on those but that's why we also have a group chat for the different gaming groups I'm in.
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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.
Dude xFire was my jam.
I remember leaving xFire handles in my forum signatures with a random anime picture. Those were the days…
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Wait, you don't just hang like 6 of them out of your desktop by their cables and wipe them while you sleep?
Mine, sure. I replaced 15 desktops that day, no fucking way.
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Stoat looks promising, open source
They won't even send a verification email to my gmail account so I can sign up.
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Hope this will mass exodus into Matrix, like it happened with Twitter / X.
Matrix doesn't have any of the same features discord has for voice and video.
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Well yes, I would say it's very much an integral part of my social life.
I spend a lot of time with my gamer friends and it revolves around our discord servers.
We even have a discord servers dedicated to our role play sessions.
IMHO Discord is a bit more than just a voice chat app. It's also rooms with persistant chats. It's the ability to share media etc.
Also their noise reduction tech is top notch.
I knew when I got in that it would be another "Gmail" for me. It's great but you have to give a bit of your soul to it and I knew it would enshitify eventually.
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.
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Almost like social sites arent monolithic, and different people can be outraged by different things!
Are you surprised that the blunt instrument of boomer legislation is operating without the nuance you'd like?
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Wow I guess I get to finally dump Discord as my last proprietary chat app.
There are lots of self hosted alternatives like Mattermost, Mumble, and Matrix (decentralized).
There's also the new Freenet River demo: https://freenet.org/quickstart/
Maybe I'll make my own discord clone lol.
Before you start your own, contribute to
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I think they meant you could wipe with dd and then they are
recyclablereusable.EDIT: s/recycleable/reusable
They're recyclable snipped.
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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.
"Hacked"
I'm convinced most of them are selling it, then claiming being hacked so they have plausible deniability when the alias/e-mail you ONLY used for discord starts getting spam+. Depending on if you linked your number, etc... -
I mean, I share the complaint of Discord having tons of unindexable knowledge locked away in it, but forums are not good replacement for my friend group. So yeah we kinda want a Discord alternative specifically.
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frfr on god
Is this Belter speak?
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They'll have a "retina" scan of a brown-eyed cyclops.
Ol Toothless, that's his name
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im gonna draw a smiley face over my ass, and say its me. and if AI can deduce my identity with that alone. then ill finally believe we have assproached singulassity. and have ASsI
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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
