Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default "teen-appropriate" experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

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[+] 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (19 children)
  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    My community just setup a Matrix instance and we're migrating everyone over. Several already cancelled their subscription.

    I actually ran into a colleague in a random room, who is also leaving Discord.

    It's pretty nuts, there's a big exodus going on.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Any guides? Been looking at Element but that set up is intimidating.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    Are you self hosting? I just set up an instance today and it was extremely easy following the instructions for the ESS Community edition on github.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I was going to run it on an old gaming PC i been using for piHole. I was thinking a VM as I couldn't find a premade container and don't want public stuff running on the machine directly. I was still trying to work my way though reading the docs but got hung up on understanding Kubernetes before starting the setup. I also got sick of fighting Virtual Machine Manager pool location permissions last night.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    If you plan on federating, it can end up being pretty resource heavy, so consider either not federating or planning ahead.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    What's the federation like? Haven't decided on it yet. Realistically I may convince 10ish people to join so I'm not sure it be worth the hassle.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not trying to say that you can't/shouldn't federate with others. You don't need to federate everything, all channels, etc, nor should you IMO. I found out really quickly that the small server I had set aside for it was not up to the task when I decided to sync up the matrix.org main channels. You need lots of ram, FAST storage, and a good internet connection at bare minimum.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Oh man, I think I just need Synapse and not the full ESS suite. May have been making this harder than I needed.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If you just need a chat server for your and some friends and family, that is almost certainly will work for you.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Don't even have to go that far. Just stop paying for Nitro. They'll get the picture when their revenue stream dries up.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Anyone want to script through the signup process and feed the damn thing a bunch of AI generated faces?

    Typically when a signup page is difficult to automate, you can use a library meant for automated testing within a browser—like Selenium. Also, disposable emails services come in handy—like mailsac. If they block all the disposable email services, you can also use your iCloud+ custom email domain (if you have it) with the Allow All Incoming Messages setting turned on—then you use randomly generated user handles for each signup. A better way would be Gmail accounts so that they blend in more, but I’m not sure how to script through Gmail signup when they often require a phone number verification step.

    Not sure about the easiest way to recycle your IP, in case they monitor signups that way too. I’m sure there’s a way to overcome that too via VPN.

    If 2% of Discord users did this 50 times, that would make half of Discords user profiles and face recognition data completely fake.

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