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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
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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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[–] 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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