▲ 864 ▼ Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face (9to5google.com) submitted 6 months ago by criss_cross@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world 314 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] itsmorgantime@lemmy.radio 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 15 points 6 months ago* (2 children) Well yes, I would say it's very much an integral part of my social life. I spend a lot of time with my gamer friends and it revolves around our discord servers. We even have a discord servers dedicated to our role play sessions. IMHO Discord is a bit more than just a voice chat app. It's also rooms with persistant chats. It's the ability to share media etc. Also their noise reduction tech is top notch. I knew when I got in that it would be another "Gmail" for me. It's great but you have to give a bit of your soul to it and I knew it would enshitify eventually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] itsmorgantime@lemmy.radio 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 points 6 months ago For context my country (France) is trying to pass a law that forbids the use of social networks to users younger than 15yo. So I suppose this move from Discord is partly due to that. Now that being said I would hope the verification process will have much more scrutiny in Europe than it would in the US. I would definitely not be happy about it but if they are not allowed to keep any of the verification data afterwards it could be "acceptable". But if I have the feeling they keep any data I will actively look into building a Stoat instance and try the even harder task of convincing my friends to switch over. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Willoughby@piefed.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) I see luck with "combos" XMPP + Mumble is a common one. The room is on XMPP, some users are in a mumble server with info in the topic. Matrix is buggy and doesn't scale imo, it isn't a sustainable alternative. Stoat looks like a great option and there are lots of open instances. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] who@feddit.org 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) Matrix is buggy and doesn’t scale imo, I don't know what problems you found, but the biggest bugs I encountered in past years seem to be fixed now, at least on recent clients. (Element X is recent, and I've seen praise for FluffyChat.) Matrix for text and Mumble for voice works well for me. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 6 months ago Yes, many of my childhood best friends live a 9 hour flight away. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 15 points 6 months ago* (2 children) Well yes, I would say it's very much an integral part of my social life. I spend a lot of time with my gamer friends and it revolves around our discord servers. We even have a discord servers dedicated to our role play sessions. IMHO Discord is a bit more than just a voice chat app. It's also rooms with persistant chats. It's the ability to share media etc. Also their noise reduction tech is top notch. I knew when I got in that it would be another "Gmail" for me. It's great but you have to give a bit of your soul to it and I knew it would enshitify eventually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] itsmorgantime@lemmy.radio 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 points 6 months ago For context my country (France) is trying to pass a law that forbids the use of social networks to users younger than 15yo. So I suppose this move from Discord is partly due to that. Now that being said I would hope the verification process will have much more scrutiny in Europe than it would in the US. I would definitely not be happy about it but if they are not allowed to keep any of the verification data afterwards it could be "acceptable". But if I have the feeling they keep any data I will actively look into building a Stoat instance and try the even harder task of convincing my friends to switch over. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Willoughby@piefed.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) I see luck with "combos" XMPP + Mumble is a common one. The room is on XMPP, some users are in a mumble server with info in the topic. Matrix is buggy and doesn't scale imo, it isn't a sustainable alternative. Stoat looks like a great option and there are lots of open instances. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] who@feddit.org 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) Matrix is buggy and doesn’t scale imo, I don't know what problems you found, but the biggest bugs I encountered in past years seem to be fixed now, at least on recent clients. (Element X is recent, and I've seen praise for FluffyChat.) Matrix for text and Mumble for voice works well for me. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] itsmorgantime@lemmy.radio 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 points 6 months ago For context my country (France) is trying to pass a law that forbids the use of social networks to users younger than 15yo. So I suppose this move from Discord is partly due to that. Now that being said I would hope the verification process will have much more scrutiny in Europe than it would in the US. I would definitely not be happy about it but if they are not allowed to keep any of the verification data afterwards it could be "acceptable". But if I have the feeling they keep any data I will actively look into building a Stoat instance and try the even harder task of convincing my friends to switch over. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 points 6 months ago For context my country (France) is trying to pass a law that forbids the use of social networks to users younger than 15yo. So I suppose this move from Discord is partly due to that. Now that being said I would hope the verification process will have much more scrutiny in Europe than it would in the US. I would definitely not be happy about it but if they are not allowed to keep any of the verification data afterwards it could be "acceptable". But if I have the feeling they keep any data I will actively look into building a Stoat instance and try the even harder task of convincing my friends to switch over. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) I see luck with "combos" XMPP + Mumble is a common one. The room is on XMPP, some users are in a mumble server with info in the topic. Matrix is buggy and doesn't scale imo, it isn't a sustainable alternative. Stoat looks like a great option and there are lots of open instances. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] who@feddit.org 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) Matrix is buggy and doesn’t scale imo, I don't know what problems you found, but the biggest bugs I encountered in past years seem to be fixed now, at least on recent clients. (Element X is recent, and I've seen praise for FluffyChat.) Matrix for text and Mumble for voice works well for me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] who@feddit.org 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) Matrix is buggy and doesn’t scale imo, I don't know what problems you found, but the biggest bugs I encountered in past years seem to be fixed now, at least on recent clients. (Element X is recent, and I've seen praise for FluffyChat.) Matrix for text and Mumble for voice works well for me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 6 months ago Yes, many of my childhood best friends live a 9 hour flight away. permalink fedilink source parent