We have another event that invites people over to our side!
Fuck Discord is the common message now, but how about we amplify good alternatives? It’ll be easier to tell Discord to fuck off if we’re already set to move elsewhere.
Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background
Submitted 2 weeks ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to technology@lemmy.world
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Red_October@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Forum’s, websites, all the shit we used to do.
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
The main thing I will miss from discord is the ease of streaming with a small group of friends. That was main reason we chose it over alternatives back in the day.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ah yes let me open up a voice chat of a forum.
comador@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Alternatives
- Revolt.chat (now stoat.chat)
- Matrix.org
- cinny.in
- Rocket.chat
- mattermost.com
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Keep in mind everyone that Stoat still doesn’t currently protect it’s users information and is centralized. It doesn’t use encryption but it is very seamless.
You can host your own Stoat instance but it doesn’t communicate with the main one.
The devs have said they plan to add more security features in the future yet still don’t make it a priority. The host of Stoat should be able to see everyone’s messages, including in DM’s, due to the lack of E2E encryption.
Once they add more security features I imagine they will be much more popular in general.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Stoat chat is still and likely always will be a flaming pile of mismanaged trash.
Matrix doesn’t actually support the features people actually use discord for. It’s a great alterative to teams or business communications but as a discord alterative it’s fucking awful.
WormFood@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I looked in stoat’s issue tracker and there is an issue asking for video chat which is 5 years old and still open. Safe to say it’s a dead project.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I see rocket chat is used by the US Army and Air Force.
Not sure how secure that is.
Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Teamspeak, Mumble? These were popular for gaming communities, not sure what happened to those
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Fuck Discord
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 weeks ago
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superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
What do i say to my friends to get them to leave? Ive already tried and they won’t.
Sadly this change won’t really affect them so they are not going to care. I’ve wanted to leave for a long time now.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
What do i say to my friends to get them to leave? Ive already tried and they won’t.
I just abruptly switched to Matrix and encouraged anyone who wanted to get a hold of me to do the same, did not look back, now a good handful of my friends have a Matrix account.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same.
If someone isn’t willing to take a minimum amount of effort to stay in contact with me, then I’m not losing much if I don’t ever talk to them again. They don’t have to quit Discord, they just have to find me elsewhere.
sobchak@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I joined a Matrix group, and the UX frustrated one person so much, they just quit. Kinda surprised me some people care about UX that much. I guess I’m used to using software developed by hobbyists, lol.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Just leave.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hope me being in 30 different coomer discords helps me out
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They’ve outright said you will need to verify regardless of what your current usage is.
baronvonj@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Everything I’ve said is everybody is categorize as a teen unless the provide face/ID verification. So anonymous should still be allowed in general, just not to servers/channels set as age restricted.
Atropos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My group mostly only uses discord for video chat during D&D. Is there a recommended alternative? We don’t use ANY of the other features. I’m looking into jitsi now.
quips@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Matrix has end to end video conferencing and is decentralized like Mastodon
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Element w. Element call is ok
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
now its another thing to determine whether a server you are looking at has set up support for Element call, or is still on the older calling method not supported by the new apps…
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
markko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Haven’t used it for a few years, but Jitsi was great if all you need is video chat
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is what I and others I know use it for as well. Virtual dnd for one or two while the rest of us are in person.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I brought this up in my friend group, and, to quote one of them, the general consensus is “is it weird that I actually don’t care”
Ardyvee@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
We have had similar reactions to things like tracking by websites and other such cases. And to a certain extent, I get it: sometimes you just want your tools to work and move on with your life. And if that means that something you don’t particularly use or immediately care about is worse, then that’s just the cost of doing business.
Specially around “NSFW”, a lot of people just don’t engage with it in “public”. They leave “NSFW” stuff to one on one conversations with people they are close with, if at all.
The thing is, I say “NSFW” in quotes because we have seen, repeatedly, that what might be NSFW is not just porn. It has been extended to things around identify, sexual health and so on. Never mind that “you don’t care about privacy” until you realize that you were in a data breach and you now have to worry about malicious people getting you into financial peril by abusing your identity. Or worse.
I’m not sure how you get people to care, though, before things get bad enough.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is there a fediverse alternative for Messenger? Because I currently partially use Discord as a non-Meta alternative.
quips@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Matrix is fanstastic
rektdeckard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Matrix voice and video chat is sadly under-equipped for the only kind of thing I want (team gaming and screen share). They are working on moving to a new realtime media transport but until it manifests I can’t see it as an alternative. I’ve read about Revolt and some others but I don’t see anything that seems capable. Happy to be corrected on this!
sobchak@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Signal is ok. SimpleX theoretically has better privacy guarantees (metadata privacy, more decentralized). Matrix is ok for communities; I think it exposes a lot of metadata though (who you are talking to, not what you’re talking about).
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stoat has been recommended a lot, and it appears to be open source.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It was fun knowing you all! See you around.
kokesh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Deleting my account
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Shrek image still works?
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Translation: we’ve been snooping on all of your chats and you didn’t reference 6 or 7 in sequence more than is statistically likely due sometime currently over 18 years in age.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ll just begin saying whippersnappers, and bees knees.
comador@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bye bye Discord, you were never that good to begin with anyway.
51dusty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I will never understand the move from forums to discord. when discord is the only way to get assistance, I go find another product.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Discord is terrible for assistance.
Search is ineffective, you have to actually fight the UI to go back to older messages, depending on the device there are still somehow cases in which you can’t go back to the beginning of a thread.
Oh, you’re trying to scroll down through old posts? Let me suddenly refresh the list for no reason and bring you back to the most recent ones. Everything past the third screen might as well not exist anymore.
And of course, there is the slight problem of every useful info written there being completely invisible to the rest of the internet.
silentjohn@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It was one of the first to make voice chat really really easy for gamers. Yes vent and ts existed before, but discord made it soooo easy and had integrated irc-style chat
victorz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s easier to set up than a forum. I suppose. But messier.
A forum is much better suited for the purpose a lot of people are using Discord for.
They should be using Discord for voice chat and streaming, that’s what it’s good at. Use a fairly tool for what it does well. Not for what it does poorly.
anon5621@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
For me it was replacement for Skype when it became shit in 2016