Age verification for all.
  • SpaceCrystal@lemmy.ml
    15·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah, you go ahead & do that, & watch how many people will jump ship to other alternatives while you lose a lot of money & subscriptions, especially when you’ve been hacked before.

    People have found other alternatives to TikTok, & they’ll do the same with Discord.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
      181·
      6 hours ago

      i wouldn’t be so optimistic. normies have a tendency to accept quite a lot.

  • Geki@lemmy.ml
    5·
    5 hours ago

    We need something like what Lemmy is to Reddir, except for discord. A decentralized application with multiple instances that users can join.

    I have a discord server of about ~1K members, and would love to spin up a docker container to host my own instance that users can join. Chat, voice/ video calls, video streaming, etc. I’d love to support a FOSS project like this. Maybe even have E2E while we’re at it!

    • borrowed_atoms@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Stoat (formerly called Revolt) is potentially that. I tried it a while back and it was still rough around the edges, but the potential was there. Open source and has potential for self hosting.

      Stoat.chat

  • RotatingParts@lemmy.mlEnglish
    48·
    12 hours ago

    I hope for once people would get together and drop Discord so that Discord would have to reverse this policy. So often, we the customers really have the power if we get together and act together. All these social networks are nothing without the contributions of the customers.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
      131·
      10 hours ago

      without the contributions of the customers

      Without the contributions of the product.

      As the adage goes, if you’re not paying for it (and often even when you are), you’re not the customer.

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    60·
    13 hours ago

    I’m never doing this. I’ll pay someone else to verify my account before I upload my dox with these assholes.

    I’m fine switching to an alternative, but I have seen no gaming companies linking anything else for their official “forums”

      • Untold1707@lemmy.zip
        5·
        8 hours ago

        Usability is good in my opinion. They’ve spent a lot of time on the UI over the past couple years. The mobile Element X apps are excellent now IMO. But the two things that prevent matrix/Element from being a good discord replacement are:

        1. No Mumble-like voice chat. They have Zoom-like conference calling now, but no voice channels.
        2. Search is either non-existent (mobile clients) or is awful. It’s somehow worse than Discord’s search! I know it’s because the search needs to work on-device because of E2EE, but unfortunately it’s still a minus point vs Discord.
          • ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕚0𝕤@social.ggbox.fr
            1·
            40 minutes ago

            Seconding this, just use mumble. It’s self-hosted free and open source software, easy on resources, provides very low latency, and it’s very stable and reliable.

            The client might look a little dated but I still love it. I don’t care for stupid electron apps, which every modern application seems to be.

  • mechanicalAnt@piefed.zipEnglish
    48·
    13 hours ago

    I don’t trust discord with what little I formation I’ve gave them so far. Definitely not giving them my ID or a scan of my face.

    • ttyybb@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 hours ago

      But they pinky promise the face scan is not facial recognition and that it’s immediately deleted and never leaves your device.

  • tehWrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    12 hours ago

    However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.>

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 hours ago

      that’s probably not much better though. nothing good will come from discord scanning and judging everything we say on it.

  • EstraDoll [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    12 hours ago

    in other news: next month i will be attempting to bypass discord’s “AI” powered security features. I expect to overcome them in 4 minutes with a pic of an ID i found on the internet