Discord is making a huge change that will enact age restrictions for all accounts until users verify their age with ID or face scans.
  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    1 hour ago

    I guess I’m going to be a teenager again! If only it meant I could not go to work and spend 8 hours a day playing games.

  • cheesybuddha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    4 hours ago

    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.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      22 minutes ago

      Self-hosted options like Mumble also exist.

      Self-hosted is a pain to get started with but as everything enshittifies if will only get more important.

      • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 minutes ago

        As someone who doesn’t use the voice chat feature of Discord, I am always confused when people suggest things like Mumble as an alternative.

      • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I’m still salty about The Cutting Room Floor requiring you to log into their Discord to create an account for their website.

  • merdaverse@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    4 hours ago

    This is great news! Discord shooting itself in the foot is a net positive for the whole world.

  • orenj@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    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?

    • Arke@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      44 minutes ago

      I’m very interested in this question too. I tried Mumble but it looks like it does not support screen streaming which honestly is pretty good. 99% of my discord use since I stopped playing wow is just hanging around with 3 friends of mine and speaking about crap. We like to play or watch movies together and it’s nice to be able to share stuff.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      57 minutes ago

      Yep, straight to Palantir.

      In 10 years, when MAGA has everything locked down, and you complain about something online, they’ll put out a BOLO, and instantly, the entire network will start checking every camera for your face, and within a few minutes they will have a timeline on your movements for as far back as they want, including every time you enter or leave your house. If you aren’t in your house, they’ll find you out there somewhere, and immediately dispatch ICE Apes to find you, detain you, and send you to the nearest work camp, where you will be leased out as a slave to some corporation.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    7 hours ago

    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.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    130·
    9 hours ago

    For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”

    Just a few months ago they had a data leak which proved that they were indeed /not/ deleting documents and ID’s like they had been claiming.

    Granted in that case it was mostly countries that force keeping that data but, I’m sick of companies lying and saying “lol yea we defo delete the data after”

    • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 hours ago

      My friend is an exec there. After reading this thread bugged him to buy my software that would protect this vulnerability. They confirmed data/file never leaves the user’s device. Sounds pretty safe.

      • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        37 minutes ago

        You do know that it’s bullshit? Unless they’re incredibly incompetent they’re lying to you. If the data never leaves the client then all the checks are client-side, which means it’s relatively easy (compared to a server side check) to bypass those checks.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      8 hours ago

      I won’t even give hard drives when recycling a computer, I pull and smash myself. Last set of old drives I cut in half with bolt cutters.

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        This is not truly foolproof. Data can still be recovered from the spinning metal platter since it can theoretically be removed and put into a recovery device, even in a broken state.

        Im addition to that, hard drives/ssd’s sometimes have small flash memory chips, from which data can sometimes be recovered.

        If you want it to actually be unrecoverable then you have to actually ensure all parts thay store data are truly deleted/wiped, which is more than just the core platter. Or just use encryption and throw away the key, since all data going through the tiny OS on these devices will be encrypted. Or just store them forever in a vault.

        • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Bud, if you put that platter back together after I snipped it, you deserve every bit of data you get off it, 1000%

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    7 hours ago

    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.

  • Aielman15@lemmy.worldEnglish
    196·
    10 hours ago

    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.