'I cannot trust tech companies with that kind of personal data': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks – and they have a point
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Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March – and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.
  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    59 minutes ago

    I keep researching alternatives, and every time I circle back around toward Matrix, despite criticisms. Part of it is a question of what everyone is using. I pretty consistently see that groups who use or used to use irc are now using Matrix additionally or as a replacement.

    Part of me would like xmpp to be the best answer, but I’ve yet to see an implementation that handles public communities well, particularly for anything that functions at all like Discord. Matrix seems to be at least gaining voice/video chat support?

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    It’ll be the new Victorian age all over again. Morals and acting righteous up top and secret human stuff just underneath the surface. Just look at what is happening in the bad old usa today. This is not about protecting minors.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Is there a reason people don’t just go back to Vent/TS? Has it really been so long since those were the de facto options that people are in a quandary over what to do when Discord is clearly in the midst of rapid enshittification?

  • disco_jimmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    116·
    2 hours ago

    I think it’s great that acting like a cunt online can have consequences. I’m sticking with Discord.

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    9 hours ago

    Note, this is happening for the same reason Reddit started enshittifying much harder all of a sudden. Discord wants to do an IPO and so they’re going to suddenly start squeezing their users to make the numbers look good just in time for that IPO. Their bet is that they have enough momentum that enough people will stick with them long enough for the IPO to succeed, and after that happens, it’s someone else’s problem.

  • BaraCoded@literature.cafeEnglish
    11·
    10 hours ago

    So far, I have stumbled upon Stoat, a project called Sharkord, the Matrix network and the XMPP network.

    Xmpp is both secure and snappy. Stoat doesn’t federate but the interface is really Discord-like.

    Some kind of XMPP based Stoat would be nice.

  • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    232·
    12 hours ago

    this is not at all what i’m seeing on discord, and I think it’s worthy of note that the article’s sample is Reddit posts in r/discordapp. Discord users who use Reddit in general have a systemic bias that’s close to ours, as opposed to the majority that is young Discord users.