Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
AnotherHelldiver@jlai.lu 11 months agoIf your state requires ID verification, then most apps will probably comply. You can try Matrix with Element or just Signal with a group.
More more “off-the-line” alternatives you can look at Mumble and own your own server.
simplex.chat is what I use and would recommend instead of signal
Element is the best option for people who need the “discordlike” features such as sub “room” in a community
You can totally get by with just making multiple simplex groups IMO but some people coming from discord don’t like that
We use simplex here, but if I want to also use it from the desktop it’s really clunky. I hope they find a way to unclunk that.
It’s not that inconvenient considering how shitty the Signal desktop experience is: it’s slow, bloated and has moody sync.
OverTheFiniteSun@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Thanks - also wrong country, I thankfully don’t have age verification mandated yet but I’d really rather not use a service that goes into age verification in general. I’ll see if I can convince the 2 friends I text with there to use one of those. Don’t think they like age verification either.