BlazeDiscord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.
ViericIn a few months they will try again with “a completely different and 100% trusted group with no ties whatsoever to Persona and/or Peter Thiel”. By which I mean the exact same fucking company acting through a proxy. Don’t let this theater prevent you from leaving to a better platform. It’s still coming, they just want to wait for people to get complacent again.
No no next time it’ll be a Palantir front
Is Perdona not already a Palantir front?
Mugita SokioThey can kiss my producer’s butt, as he’s left Discord in 2020. He seemingly saw the writing on the wall for that, but had no clue at the time.
What’s the better platform that everyone should leave to? I looked into Stoat the other day but its obvious they aren’t currently equipped to handle the influx of traffic they’re getting, and a lot of dev work still needs to be done.
Matrix. Federated and self hostable, open source, supports encryption
Matrix would be my own, personal suggestion as well. I didn’t name names in my original comment because I didn’t want anyone to feel pigeonholed into something, the most important thing right now is simply getting yourselves safe if you need to. But yes, if you want a suggestion, Matrix is probably the best idea for all the reasons above. Plus, you are free to use any Matrix supported client, I admit pickings are a little slim in terms of variety on the front of clients atm, there are a few but they are functionally largely identical currently. But hopefully that will change in time, faster if the standard gets more popular.
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Its mature, it can handle a bazillion users and is really lightweight. And with a nice front-end like “The Lounge” it can also look fancy.
MikinaThat’s like half the reason people use discord.
Sooo… what about telling those people that they should learn to use the right tool for the job?
There’s like a million options for text only chats. The reason discord is popular is that it has voice and video calls, screen sharing, and text chat. Most people don’t want to need 3 or 4 different programs with 3 or 4 different accounts to use those features.
That is the appeal of discord, and there are very few options that offer a similar, seamless experience. It is (moving towards was) the “right tool for the job” for all of those features, all in a single tool.
I switched to Matrix (Element client). Works fine but I have my eyes also on Movim (XMPP)
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Peter Thiel is a creepy weirdo who injects himself with the blood of young people in an attempt to reverse aging.
That means it’s very important that you find and spread unflattering photos that highlight the fact that he’s almost 60 years old.
Doesn’t matter Discord. I deleted my account and the app. Not coming back no matter what.
My producer already ditched it in 2020, seeing the writing on the wall. I never got a Discord account, and this was partly the reason why.