• sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io
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    I wish I could convince my giant discord community to go anywhere else. It’s so fucking hard. I’ve built IRC networks and a matrix server. I host every fediverse app imaginable. I hate being attached to this company and my income being reliant on it.

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      26 minutes ago

      Back in the day when our community was switching from xmpp to discord, our solution was to write a bot on either end that relayed messages from one to the other. The xmpp bot got more and more naggy over time until eventually we put the xmpp side in read-only for everyone except the relay bot. It did a good enough job at building momentum to switch that the final holdouts came over when we went r/o.

      You might consider building something similar if you want to make a genuine effort to switch to matrix or IRC. A relay bot solves the problem of the first people being punished by virtue of being first.

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      FTA: The IDs leaked were from people appealing age verification.

      That’s different from the age verification process, which goes through a third party provider.

      In short, the leaked IDs were from a standard shitty support platform (Zendesk, Salesforce, etc), not the much-advertised “safe and private” age verification system.

    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Very first question in FAQ:

      Q: Does Discord or k-ID keep my selfie data?

      A: Discord only logs the k-ID age verification results used to unlock your account—it doesn’t save your selfie image. For questions about k-ID’s processes, please contact k-ID.

      So they are going to blame someone else.

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      This was kind of breach so predictable even surprisedpikachu.txt isn’t enough, but it must be done.

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        put the pikachu part in code so it’ll render monospaced ;)

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    • FishFace@lemmy.world
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      53 minutes ago

      I held out for a return to IRC for a long time but the days of only getting messages when you’re online, or of setting up a bouncer or other solution, are just long gone.

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    8 hours ago

    Official statement from Discord: “Oopse woopse we did a fucky wucky. Sue us hahaha you won’t”

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    11 hours ago

    No, that can’t be right. Forced use of photo ID for age verification couldn’t possibly lead to leakage of said IDs. The purity police assured us!

  • Rando@sh.itjust.works
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    I really wish there was a good competitor to Discord. I have not found one that has the same screen sharing feature. Revolt (now Stoat) gets close but lacks the screen sharing - something me and my friends use a lot. They are adding this soon so hopefully it is good

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      that has the same screen sharing feature

      Uhm, yeah, it’s a chat app, not a screen-sharing app.

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        Screen-sharing is part of chat apps nowadays. You’re fully within your rights to stay on IRC and pretend that featureful chat is not the norm these days, but that doesn’t mean society is going to move to IRC with you. Like it or not, encrypted chat apps have to become even more usable for the average person for adoption to go up. This reminds me of how all the old Linux-heads insisted that gaming was for children and that Linux didn’t need gaming. Suddenly now that Linux has gaming, adoption is going way up - what a coincidence.

        Edit: Also for the record, I have a tech-savvy friend who refuses to move to Signal until there are custom emoji reactions, of all things. You can definitely direct your ire towards these people, but the reality is some people have a certain comfort target, and convincing them to settle for less is often harder than improving the app itself.

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      It’s Matrix.

      We don’t need another competitor. We need more people using the federated option.

      Same thing with alternatives to windows. We already have it, but people are too stupid to use it.

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      I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

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        I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

        1. Some people pay for Discord and they still exploit their data.
        2. Some people pay for Lichess and their whole website is free of charge without tracking/advertising.

        Yes, things cost money. Yes, ideally pay who can pay for it should. No, something being free doesn’t legitimize unethical means to make a profit.

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        Telegram is profitable through semi-pushing some cryptocurrency and selling premium. Various free-to-play games are profitable through the sale of optional content.

        There are alternatives in offering delayed or optional monetary costs.

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      Revolt (Stoat?) is alright, but good luck getting people to join there lol, Discord is the only thing people are willing to join

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      Now more than ever people will have to choose between privacy and comfort. And not to be a dick, but now more than ever, people choosing comfort are fucking over people who choose privacy.

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      Matrix or Jitsi with Lemmy or any popular forum software would be my suggestion. More secure and private but require some technical knowledge.

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        Matrix is an absolutely pale imitation of Discord.

        Yes it is very upsetting that the most popular chat platform in the Western world is in league with Sauron, but Matrix as a replacement is a glorified ICQ client that regularly yells at you that your device is untrusted now and there’s no hope of fixing it, you loser.

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          Yeah Matrix is horrible, I don’t think it will ever catch on

          I used Element and it was also an overcomplicated and cluttered UI. They should’ve just straight copied Discord like ReVolt/Stoat did