Yeah I’m only just barely lurking on discord I have no problem leaving.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Submitted 18 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally
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drascus@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
whelk@retrolemmy.com 7 hours ago
I’d miss the history in my family server, but we’d get over it. If I can convince everyone else to move
big_slap@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I set up a mumble server on my cloud computer, it isnt bad!
hardest part is going to be convincing people to switch over. it was so difficult to migrate people from Xbox and ps parties to discord, but it is what it is lol
Fokeu@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I’m leaving the moment it’s implemented.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
that’s a great excuse to finally delete my discord account
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 14 hours ago
Yeah, same.
It’s about the only megacorp thing I actively use (beside Steam, tho purely for downloading games), but I won’t help normalise & support such bs (ofc I never bought Nitro bcs I’m not supporting bs monetisation).
DancingTable@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’ve already responded by deleting Discord from all my devices.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Hmm, guess I’m gonna have to spin up a chat service if this “teen” setting is too restrictive. The only guarantee I have is that anything given for age verification is going to be hacked with 0 compensation, I will not submit either my face or my ID. My account is 9 yrs this year, will they consider an almost 10 yr old account to be that of an adult?
Is there another good chat app like this? With similar features (only really need voice/text maybe pictures. Channels that won’t vanish if everyone logs off)? Haven’t been on IRC since 2k2, has it advanced since then? Back in the IRC days we used Team Speak (forget if it was TS or TS2 but on linux you had 0 restrictions on number of users).
ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Does anyone know how to setup matrix?
Mikina@programming.dev 17 hours ago
It’s extremely easy, the Matrix ansible deploy project is very simple to use (with at least basic tech literacy), is very well documented and as far as I’ve seen in the past few years of using it do deploy and update my Matrix instance - it’s also very robust. I haven’t seen it fail a single time, which tends to be a problem with larger Docker/Ansible projects.
I’m paying 7$ a month for a cheap server on Hetzner, you also need a domain name, and the whole setup took like an hour.
Zephorah@discuss.online 18 hours ago
What is the free and open source alternative?
Beep@lemmus.org 18 hours ago
RalfWausE@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Its IRC, it works, there is already a very mature ecosystem
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
There’s Mumble for voice, text and images. The server is self hosted and there is no chat history so it’s private. It uses Opus so the audio quality is very good without using a lot of bandwidth. For gaming, it supports positional audio and a HUD that shows who is talking.
For the projects using Discord for support, they should move to a forum.
Teal@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
🖕
tabular@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Can you save all chat logs on Discord?
Beep@lemmus.org 15 hours ago
You can.
But only CIA can export them.
On serious note, here is a tool to do that.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
GDPR should give you the right, but I’m not sure if they have a button you can click or if you need to email them about it
tabular@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Probably have to identify myself in some way 🫠
blindbunny@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Atleast all the pedos well finally leave the platform
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Does Matrix have problems I’m not aware of as an alternative? Saw they have 115 million accounts compared to Discord’s 500 million so its already well tested? Not a user of either service.
whelk@retrolemmy.com 7 hours ago
I really want to love Matrix but man, it just feels janky. And this is from someone who likes IRC and XMPP. I can’t put my finger on why Matrix just doesn’t feel great, that’s the most frustrating part. Might be solvable with a decent client. I don’t like Element. Quaternion seems nice and simple but keeps crashing on me, and I don’t think it handles voice
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Matrix is not a Discord alternative, it’s a Slack alternative
quips@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
It absolutely is both
cley_faye@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Matrix, the central service, might work, but I’m not sure if it could handle the load well. Matrix, the federated service, hosted by many people, have performance issues with the “free” version. I could not test the paid/more optimized version, so I can’t talk about that.
Anyway, the protocol and clients have their issues. All these stems from usage; I did not do a deep dive in the internal of it. But on the top of my head:
- joining a room will sometimes not send you keys to see older messages, despite being configured to do so. When it works, it’s ok. When it doesn’t, there’s little to no recourse.
- sometimes (rarely) rooms have to be upgraded to use new versions/features. So far it happened once (to my knowledge). The issue is that “upgrade” means locking the existing room, creating a new one, inviting everyone in the new room, and putting a link to the old room as read only. Sure, the process is mostly automated… except the best way to start it is using dev commands on a client, and every user will have to accept the invite. Just hope you don’t have too much rooms.
- Logging into a new device/client sometimes will works perfectly fine. Other times it will obstinately refuse to retrieve your room’s keys from another existing, online, logged-in device. Despite the “confirmation” dialog, it won’t work. You can manually export/import your keys from one device to another, but for large scale adoption? Not good. You can say goodbye to all previous messages if that happens.
- Interface is relatively barebone, and some features gets pushed quickly (like, throwing confettis), while other (like, proper room management, fine notification controls, etc.) are held back forever.
- Features are limited. It works very well as a chat, and they recently worked on a built-in video/audio call service, but that’s it. A few “plugins” are supposed to work but are clunky as hell (they’re basically iframes). Some features that people consider important (like stickers) are definitively an afterthought, and searching for a sticker is a pain (dicslaimer: I’m not using the central service/app, so that part might be specific to my instance)
With that said, nothing’s actually a show stopper for small usage, and the heavily optimized server might handle itself well enough, as long as you’re mainly concerned with having text rooms. But open instances handling hundreds of users might be a stretch… for now. Maybe this will cause more development into the Matrix/Element ecosystem.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Maybe we’ll be able to use death stranding or stellar blade here.
phillycodehound@piefed.world 14 hours ago
What possibly could go wrong? /s
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Grok needs to faces to turn into porn.