Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re delaying it by six months. They’re banking on this blowing over by then. Fuck discord.

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  • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let’s hope this gives competitors more time to get things setup well.

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Was about to say this, how nice of discord to give people time to migrate to another service

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    this is the second time they have “delayed” the age verification

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  • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I cancelled my nitro when it was announced they were doing this shady crap and it’s staying cancelled until there is credible assurances they won’t be handing over personal data to the like so palantir and other related goons.

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    • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Short of regular 3rd party audits, there’s nothing they can do that would assure they’re handling your data with privacy and care. And even that’s a stretch.

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  • Trilogy3452@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just like WhatsApp did when they introduced the TOS change for WhatsApp for Business

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Nice, I been struggling getting group chats working in Matrix. I don’t have to rush now.

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• Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This is fantastic news! Not because I actually give a shit about sticking with Discord after getting slapped in the face with this insulting age verification nonsense, but because Discord has basically no competition and 6 months will be plenty of time for a real contender to emerge in time for them to shoot themselves in the foot again.

  I don’t think Discord actually appreciates how much market share is going to slip away from them in the next 6 months. They were probably better off going through with their clandestine spying plan now while some people might be complacent enough to just comply and provide their ID to get handed over to the fucking Feds.

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• SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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  So this, but Discord.

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• jedibob5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  As much I agree with the idea of abandoning Discord - honestly, fuck 'em - I just don’t know how I or many other people could practically make the full switch… While I might be able to convince a few of my close friends to go with me to whatever new platform comes about, there’s just no way any larger communities would be able to uproot and leave without losing 90%+ of their members, and that’s only if the owners of those communities are even willing to leave in the first place. Inertia is a powerful thing, and the reality of the situation is that the vast majority of Discord users will not be convinced to leave over this.

  I want to defend my privacy, and I want to tell these corporate ghouls to shove it, but at the same time, I don’t want to become a digital hermit. Having to decide between protecting my privacy and cutting myself off from so many valued social connections and communities feels like an impossible choice.

  I know I’m not saying anything particularly new or actionable here, I’m just… tired. I’m tired of having to flee from platform after platform into increasingly smaller and more insular corners of the internet to escape the endless cycle of enshittification. I’m tired of what the internet has become, where the only places left where you can exist without being manipulated and exploited by corporate interests are a handful of small, decentralized platforms that are becoming increasingly cut off from the internet at large. I’m just tired of this shit, man.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I feel like this article was written for you, based on your last paragraph (the author definitely relates).

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• MattW03@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Too late biiiiiiiiiitch we already had our exodus.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where’d we go though? Which place with the streaming and chatting?

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      XMPP with their myriad of gnu-ified clients.

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    • littleomid@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Matrix, can easily do the above.

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  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    “Too late” isn’t even relevant anyway, they’re still doing it, so everyone should still be leaving.

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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• iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Has anybody tried fluxer yet?

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, cool, I definitely trust them again. 🙄

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just signed up with Fluxer last night and chat with one of my old Discord friends. Fluxer is still very much in beta and under development, but seems to be a pretty promising open source clone of Discord.

  fluxer.app

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  • thejml@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh man, when they get native mobile apps, I’m looking to switch my Mattermost server to Fluxer. I’ve had good luck with Mattermost, but its not truly OSS and its been moving features over to paid enterprise accounts so the time is soon.

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  • Bonje@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As much as I like a lot of the discord alternatives out there I fear they will all eventually face the same fate. Decentralised or someone wrapping the signal protocol into a discord like client is probably the only way to avoid this again.

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    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Fluxer plans federation in the future, and its AGPL licensed.

      However, it’s still in beta, and the backend’s ability to scale is currently unproven.

      For something that’s more proven, we have Movim, which is already federated with the open standard XMPP protocol.

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    • zewm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Well I mean Fluxer is open source and have self hosting options on their roadmap. 🤷‍♂️

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    • boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I’m still hopeful about veilid.com but I suspect that’s a long way out; the protocol is still in development stages, let alone implementations of it.

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Is fluxer as network f’ed up as Discord without the minimum democratic standard of human readable domains, or is it the slavery of dozens of undocumented raw IP addresses?

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Honestly I have no idea yet, as I only heard of it and signed up last night. I am optimistic though…

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• Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Still never using again

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We still have to leave discord. But another months to to discard Discord will help. Remember don’t use anything that you can’t self hose, corporations are completely untrustworthy

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• Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This gives us all more time to find a good alternative!!!

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