I hope people using fake IDs to bypass it becomes common knowledge. Felony or not it’s effective and the ID verifying part isn’t.
Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
EaterOfLentils@programming.dev 16 hours ago
What alternative should we all switch to?
TheUnsungRooster@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
matlag@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Drop anything that’s not opensource and federated, except if you want to live the enshitification process over and over.
Matrix might be the closest to Discord. XMPP should also be considered.
whelk@retrolemmy.com 11 hours ago
I’m still trying to understand why XMPP isn’t more widely used. Probably the whole no single centralized service thing like most other federated protocols/services
matlag@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
XMPP biggest issues:
With all that said, I run a server for our family and its resources consumption is barely a blip on the radar. The lightest Matrix servers are an order of magnitude hungrier. And the difference increases with scale!
XMPP is the absolute best solution to multiply small servers, a very good thing for a healthy federation.
whelk@retrolemmy.com 9 hours ago
Appreciate the info, thanks for taking the time to reply. I loved when Google was using XMPP for their chat just because that meant I could chat with people who insisted on using their Google accounts, without having to use one myself