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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458015
If I am required to do this, I am purging my Discord account immediately. I am not giving them face scans.
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Well, say goodbye to discord
What a completely necessary and safe feature
I don’t see reporting on this from any reputable sources. If this were true, every major blog covering tech and gaming would be all over it. All I can find is random YouTube channels and nobody websites discussing it.
I’m not gonna pay it any attention until there’s reliable evidence they’re actually planning on doing this.
If something like this happens, I’m setting up a Matrix room as something on the side for if people who work on the same project I do want out of this garbage.
Back to TeamSpeak and Vent then
Vi sitter här i venten
Och spelar lite DOTA
Does anybody have any suggestions for alternatives for chats?
I use it a lot for classes (students use them) and video games.
I used to use TeamSpeak. Very cross platform, as it should be. It still has great reviews although I haven’t dug that far into the privacy aspect yet
Mumble is an open source version of Teamspeak.
Do we have concrete proof of this happening now or in the near future? Does the video provide any? I need to know whether to sound the alarm now, or wait till there’s something concrete to show people. (You can probably understand my hesitation to share a scarily titled YT video as my only proof)
I just fought tooth and nail to get my friends from Snapchat to signal, I dread trying to move them from discord to anywhere else
Wow, good on you for achieving that. I had a few friends and family on signal, but after they dropped SMS support they all left, now I have no signal contacts anymore.
after they dropped SMS support they all left
Good luck getting them to switch to something else from now on. Signal didn’t shoot themselves in the foot, they cut their leg off.
I’m still incredibly frustrated they did that. I often heard “I’ll just text you” in reply to “I’m leaving snap”. Having an all-in-one app would’ve made that so much easier.
Exactly! I’m also frustrated Matrix didn’t end up supporting SMS either, because that would be the perfect way to get people to move over.
I’m still quite excited for matrix as well, but it’s nowhere near the polish of Signal ATM and it’s not something I’d want to be tech support for 15-ish people on
See you guys in IRC.
I loved irc 20 years ago…i have no clue how to get back into it. How do you even find a cool server in 2024??
They haven’t changed that much. Freenode died and was replaced by libera.chat, but that’s about it. The other big ones are still around.
And TS
i want to use IRC but nobody ever talks to me in there
ALL ROADS LEAD BACK TO IRC
Yes, they do. :)
Dalnet or EFnet?
Libera and IRCnet.
Is Dalnet even still around? I stopped using IRC way back in the day because they said they were shutting it down and it was really the only server I used.
You know, revolt exists. Matrix is good but it isn’t the same experience as discord. Revolt is a pretty good open source copy of discord.
I used to run a Revolt server 3 years ago. The sound quality was beyond any other WebRTC service I had tried, but it was still in an early and it was lacking a lot of features. So, I switched to Element and Jitsi.
Matrix’s protocol with revolt’s UI is what we need
And Signal’s SMS feature. I’d love to gradually move my contacts over to something else, and being able to convince one at a time to switch their SMS client would make that so much easier.
Am I the only one who absolutely hates Discord’s UI & UX? It’s obtuse and bloated.
In what way?
Every way. It’s just a confusing mess. It looks like one of those early 2k websites with a gazzilion animated gifs and whatnot. The layout is full of unnecessary padding and channels and other bullshit features. Not even starting on the fact that it always wants me to get my password and do a two factor authentification + captcha on every visit, or that it does not seem to be able to detect my audio devices properly.
I don’t see any animations at all unless someone has posted a gif. Channels are a core feature, as on many similar platforms.
If it’s continually giving you issues with devices and authentication, it’s probably due to a misconfiguration in your browser, e.g. you have it set to clear cookies on exit, or you have device access permission blocked.
This was a wtf moment for me. Even though Discord’s privacy isn’t the best, and even though it’s proprietary, Discord has been seemingly loyal to its user base, even doing cool stuff like offering a Linux version of the app. However, if this becomes mandatory, I will promptly leave, I am horrified that they have fallen this low.
If by linux version you mean completely broken electron web app I suppose youre right
Canary has screenshare playing well with Wayland!
Thats actually surprising, when did they release that?
It’s their dev build. Been stable for everything i do so far. Switching back to stable once it’s merged and update released.
*sets up mumble server
Yikes, we gotta get on improving Element and Matrix as a replacer ASAP. My apologies for shillery, I don’t normally hock FOSS alternatives in the comments but I view this sort of offense by Discord as a militant action level of threat.
Matrix takes Donations LINK
Element offers product packages for developers/hosts LINK
There are also other services aside from Element with similar functionality so check those out too.
EDIT: Also Matrix is on Github LINK
Revolt also exists just btw. I dont use it just thought I’d mention it.
Cinny is a discord like matrix client :)
The feature none of them seem to have is creating a set of rules that users have to read and agree to before seeing the rest of the space, such is the case with Discord Community Channels.
I mean theres a shit ton missing for discord parity. I agree that matrix needs more of these features, just wanted to share a couple things that already exist
Guys, calm down, it doesn’t use YOUR face at all. Just a photo. Easy to bypass, and think of the fun we can have.
If that’s the computing you want to do then power to ya. I’d rather the software running on my machine do what I want, rather than work around it doing what someone else wants.
I was being tongue and cheek. Age verification is stupid.
Facial Recognition systems have liveness features that make it impossible to just show it a photo.
Maybe a puppet then. Fun battle of tech.
Oh shit, I gotta finish looking for that bot that will copy my discord channels and their content (pictures, links) to my matrix
