The moment this is attempted is the moment I’m no longer on discord.
Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans
Submitted 2 months ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
It’s being done now. It’s not an attempt, it’s reality.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Oh and that biometric data? The US government can just ask for any and all of it any time it wants to and Discorc has to legally give it up.
Do you really want to be handing this info to the Trump admin?
Get the fuck off Discord, now.
I don’t give one flying fuck how easy it is to use, they’re betraying you with every word you type into it. They keep all that data, and thus all that data is up for grabs by the US government because it’s a US company.
This is fascism we’re dealing with here. You can piss and moan about “user interface” and “it’s hard to understand Matrix” when you don’t live under fascist authoritarianism you fucking fools.
darkkite@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
age verification for social media is usually handled by a 3rd party.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Ewwwww this is gross. Fuck discord
commander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Get yourself and your friends on Matrix with Element or any other GUI program for Matrix. You’re on Lemmy, try out Matrix
priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I love Matrix but it really isnt a good discord replacement. It doesnt even have voice channels. I hope we do get a proper decentralized discord alternative at some point.
bishbosh@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s really not that similar to Lemmy.
And it does have voice/video channels.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 months ago
if only people bothered, even Linux oriented discords don’t want to move to Matrix even though the experience was nearly identical
Link@rentadrunk.org 2 months ago
If only it was that simple…
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Also don’t forget they’re planning an IPO this year to massively accelerate the enshittification. Surely their investors wouldn’t demand that this biometric data be monetized.
lemonocean@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s a good FOSS discord alternative? Is matrix the replacement?
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 months ago
Kind of. Matrix is the most supported, and works very well. However, it doesn’t have feature parity with Discord. Voice/video chat can be added via integrations, but it takes quite a few modifications to the server’s infrastructure.
It’s also a bit more complicated to navigate,
Revolt is being created as a proper FOSS Discord replacement (similar UI even), but it’s pretty early in development. It also lacks federation, which is a huge caveat imo.
lemonocean@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haven’t heard of Revolt before, looks nice! Shame about the lack of federation and no e2e encryption yet, but other than that I’m quite impressed tbh.
TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Federation is a moderator’s nightmare. I don’t blame them.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Revolt
deepfuckingdumb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some things to note.