'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.
  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    33·
    6 days 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.

  • Justifier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    Ive been trying to migrate off since 2020

    Communities I follow refuse to, and no other service is close to parity. Guilded was the closest until they allowed themselves to golden parachute with their Roblox purchase, so they’re now not longer worth considering

    Teamspeak and teamspeak6 is a joke, anyone who prefers it is off their rocker

    I’ve been following Revolt/Stout, River on FreeNet since I found it on FUTO, and others but frankly all alternatives I’ve found suck for varius reasons

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    6 days 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?

  • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    I mean I’ve wanted to change anyway since the enshittification started. I think the first thing was a paid avatar/profile decoration store. Annoying enough, but if they’re decent cosmetics and not crazy prices I can understand. I still wish there was an internal, native seeing that would just remove all the visual teasing of paid options, but I can ignore it. (Mainly I hate trying to add an emoji to chat and just seeing pages of emoji from servers that I can’t use on the one I’m on- which is already super annoying, but they put the regular result ones behind all those so you have to either scroll past them or manually switch to the default emoji page- that’s just pure rage bait- default should be first, followed by the ones from that server that you can actually use)

    But my main problem was when Nitro showed up.

    Unfortunately, of the up and comers none are quite ready yet, and none have the full suite of functionality.

    This change actually doesn’t affect me at all, I don’t really engage with any communities. I have one that I use just to mess with admin options and see what kinda choices there are and how it works, one server with a few friends (like 5 regulars counting myself) and one for some of my siblings that we only really use to play Jackbox remotely.

    But I still resent the change and have wanted a good alternative ever since subscriptions started.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
    10·
    6 days 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?

  • BaraCoded@literature.cafeEnglish
    12·
    7 days 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.