Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately there’s not really anything that comes close to Discord.

    Revolt is the closest, as it’s open source and self-hostable but still lacks many of the features and isn’t federated.

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    • executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everyone keeps recommending Revolt but I tried it last week and it’s janky as hell and the voice chat just straight up didn’t work. This wasn’t just me, too. Our whole group tried it and gave up.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well that lines up with what I said.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Element is almost identical.

      element.io

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not even close.

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  • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. Discord is mostly used for gaming.

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do believe it does have a desktop client.

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      • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It DO! Which one am I mixing it up with then? Briar?

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  • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    good luck trying to get family and friends on that lol

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Discord is not really intended for “friends and families”, it’s for communities.

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      • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s not really for communities either, it’s for locking communities into a corporate platform.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My mother and sister is on my homeserver.

      Also my SO.

      And my every friend.

      And we use Jitsi for calls during gaming or whatnot.

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      • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        jitsi, interesting…

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me

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      • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yeah, I get it. I told people one year for my bday to download the app for me to get most of my circle on it. most did haha

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    • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All it took for me is discord going down for a couple hours a couple of weeks ago. Now about half my friends went to it. All it will take is a small push or down time and they will need their fix somehow lol.

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