• Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    I’m never doing this. I’ll pay someone else to verify my account before I upload my dox with these assholes.

    I’m fine switching to an alternative, but I have seen no gaming companies linking anything else for their official “forums”

  • RotatingParts@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 months

    I hope for once people would get together and drop Discord so that Discord would have to reverse this policy. So often, we the customers really have the power if we get together and act together. All these social networks are nothing without the contributions of the customers.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
      2 months

      without the contributions of the customers

      Without the contributions of the product.

      As the adage goes, if you’re not paying for it (and often even when you are), you’re not the customer.

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    2 months

    Considering the recent “third-party” data breach cases…

  • mechanicalAnt@piefed.zipEnglish
    2 months

    I don’t trust discord with what little I formation I’ve gave them so far. Definitely not giving them my ID or a scan of my face.

    • ttyybb@lemmy.world
      2 months

      But they pinky promise the face scan is not facial recognition and that it’s immediately deleted and never leaves your device.

      • Untold1707@lemmy.zip
        2 months

        Usability is good in my opinion. They’ve spent a lot of time on the UI over the past couple years. The mobile Element X apps are excellent now IMO. But the two things that prevent matrix/Element from being a good discord replacement are:

        1. No Mumble-like voice chat. They have Zoom-like conference calling now, but no voice channels.
        2. Search is either non-existent (mobile clients) or is awful. It’s somehow worse than Discord’s search! I know it’s because the search needs to work on-device because of E2EE, but unfortunately it’s still a minus point vs Discord.
          • ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕚0𝕤@social.ggbox.fr
            2 months

            Seconding this, just use mumble. It’s self-hosted free and open source software, easy on resources, provides very low latency, and it’s very stable and reliable.

            The client might look a little dated but I still love it. I don’t care for stupid electron apps, which every modern application seems to be.

  • 99zz99 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2 months

    Lol, no thanks. I deleted this trash years ago and wish companies would stop using it for tech and customer support. “Join our discord channel!” - no.

  • SpaceCrystal@lemmy.ml
    2 months

    Yeah, you go ahead & do that, & watch how many people will jump ship to other alternatives while you lose a lot of money & subscriptions, especially when you’ve been hacked before.

    People have found other alternatives to TikTok, & they’ll do the same with Discord.

  • tehWrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.>

  • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
    2 months

    Revolt! your time has come (though it has been renamed to Stoat; a name I very much dislike.

    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2 months

      Limited Linux support (no repo or flatpak pkgs, not even aur) and tbh im not so sure how long they will continue to exist

    • NamedUser@slrpnk.net
      2 months

      If that is true then that is much better than revolt because that kind of name will make the majority of people roll their eyes and pass it up.

      So while it hard to get your friends to join a different platform imagine how much harder it would be to get them to join “revolt”. Its super edgy

      • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
        2 months

        Well, I guess that 95% of all non-native speakers don’t know what a stoat is. So it is much harder to connect to/remember it.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive.

    Shrug

    I’m not using discord for porn, so I’m not going to lose sleep. Will simply live with a “teen” account until my groups migrate to a better service.

    But you’ll get my biometrics from my cold dead hands.

    They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

    GOOD

    Crazy they didn’t implement this years ago. Discord is bloated with fake user spam.

    • this@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      So I get a free spam filter for not verifying? Guess I’m never verifying then, lol.

      • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
        2 months

        My initial thought too. Good. At least until they catch on and make some excuse for needing “teens” IDs too.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2 months

      GOOD

      Crazy they didn’t implement this years ago. Discord is bloated with fake user spam.

      it’s easy to see how they’ll manipulate this to make you think that their pro-zionist bots are actual people.

    • Anas@lemmy.world
      2 months

      The last point is already implemented, and as someone who regularly has to get DMs from strangers, I have those options off. I guess now I can’t do that.

  • EstraDoll [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2 months

    in other news: next month i will be attempting to bypass discord’s “AI” powered security features. I expect to overcome them in 4 minutes with a pic of an ID i found on the internet