“Too late” isn’t even relevant anyway, they’re still doing it, so everyone should still be leaving.
Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 hours ago
Too late biiiiiiiiiitch we already had our exodus.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 6 hours ago
I’d argue its completely relevant as they are trying to save face here. Anyone who has somehoe made it to 2026 without a hostile relationship to corporations (most red and blue team in America) will probably take this as a sign to come back for now.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Agreed; Discord is trying to lull people into a false sense of security as a means of convincing them to stay, in the same manner that Reddit gave limited API access to apps like RedReader to step the tide of users leaving for platforms like Lemmy.
Beyond age verification, if Discord is scanning a user’s messaging history to determine what their age is, one can only imagine all the other data valuable to data brokers that they are extracting from it too.
XLE@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Where’d we go though? Which place with the streaming and chatting?
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 7 hours ago
XMPP with their myriad of gnu-ified clients.
XLE@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Which client is the multi-platform one with message history and streaming video?
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 7 hours ago
Gajim is one. Dino is another (I think). You just need to make sure the client has Jingle compatability (xmpp plugin) for streaming video. A lot let you connect to multiple.xmpp servers
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
Movim. Though due to how recent it was implemented, you must use a chromium based browser to stream the application’s audio too.
littleomid@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Matrix, can easily do the above.
Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Except audio on the screen share, it is my biggest issue with matrix currently.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I setup a Haven (Github) self-hosted instance and am slowly dragging friends over as the dev pumps out features. All the important stuff is already available, still more on the way. Also has things like E2E, which I don’t care about for my community/server, but it is nice to have.
XLE@piefed.social 3 hours ago
How the heck have I not heard of this one yet? It already looks promising - I see video, chat, channel organization…
https://github.com/ancsemi/Haven
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s one main dev, another doing android, and supporters (I myself have been firing off ideas, suggestions, and issue tickets, and trying to help other users). An electron desktop program is in the works too.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I’ve been using Matrix for about a decade. Federated, encrypted chats and rooms (optional), supports video, self hostable, fully open source.
XLE@piefed.social 4 hours ago
I have too. It’s… Really not ready for primetime, based on present-day experiences watching rooms lurch into view (and I don’t even think it’s possible to search for them on Android). Has video at least gown better?