Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• kamikazerusher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m all for jumping ship on the grounds of this being an overreach. However there just aren’t any good alternatives to Discord which would entice the general public from following suit.

  Discord has the advantage of being a very frictionless user experience. You make one account and can join whatever servers you want thanks to its centralized design. It has file sharing, gif and video support, voice channels, screen sharing, API support with websocket events, and a hefty amount of bots to ease management.

  There are other solutions but they don’t cover the same amount of features. Some focus on voice, some focus on chat, and some try to do as much but the experience isn’t quite robust. It’ll be like Reddit users and the API fiasco that people thought would be its downfall: the activists will leave but the general community won’t care enough, or aren’t tech-savvy enough, to be bothered.

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  • Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There are other open source alternatives to discord that also exist

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  • Batman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m currently deploying matrix on my home server. would definitely recommend everyone able to, look into deploying it. it seems doable if you go the kubernetes helm chart route.

    I got it working with docker but video always seemed a little hokey as I didn’t understand turn servers and the various protocols.

    Each server hosts about 100 people from the docs and it handles federation.

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    • DokkaeCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      matrix clients are unintuitive, complicated and weird. It’s not a Discord experience and that’s all that matters to 99% of people. No body cares about encryption and security otherwise no one would use discord.

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    • Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There are other open source alternatives to discord that also exist

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      • LOLseas@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        . . . we’re listening. Ones with encrypted voicechat?

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