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GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Stop using Windows. Stop using Discord.

Yep. On it almost a year now, ever since 10 was EOL'd and I learned Discord was building a profile on every user based on usage.

Linux has been awesome and Discord mostly sucked anyway.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I dumped Discord when I heard they were trying to do an IPO, as soon as that happens a company is without fail going to screw all of their customers because if there are shareholders the customer becomes the product.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    This is going to happen with every large centralized service, especially if they let you use it for free. These services end up being expensive to run.

    The only real solution is to use something decentralized. You're already on Lemmy so I assume you already know this. Matrix is decent (not perfect, but it's pretty good) and it's easily self-hostable using Tuwunel.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    Alreeady on Matrix, too, of course. And my main social is Mastodon.

    I've purged Meta, Microsoft, Google, Sony, all of them. Heck, I'll even be lookin in to alternative GPUs for the next build, and how well I can run things on RISC-V rather than x64 or ARM.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Tuwunel should not be recommended to new users.

    Keep in mind the claim of being official is not true: this is a claim by one of the former co-maintainers of conduwuit, to claim legitimacy over other projects like continuwuity. Additionally, tuwunel's maintainer has openly made threats against the maintainers of continuwuity, aswell as being formally banned from the foundation for actively abusing protocol exploits. I'm not sure I'd trust a project primarily maintained by them for these reasons. Additionally, it's maintainer appears to currently also be pushing for publishing how to exploit the security vulnerabilities from the upcoming security release.

    — aur tuwunel-git, corroborated by nex (CoI: continuwuity maintainer; has received death thrrats from tuwunel developers) in #offtopic:continuwuity.org a few upgrades ago

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago* (1 child)

    I don't usually get involved in internet drama so I wasn't aware of this.

    I started with Conduit. I hit some bugs though, and development was very slow. I looked at all the forks. Conduwuit was the most active, and all the issues I had were solved, so I used it. It got archived because of some other internet drama, and the readme said to use Tuwunel instead, which is what I'm using now.

    Should I use something else?

    I dunno. Use whatever I guess, as long as it's not Synapse.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    What solution did you end up on post Discord? If you had a group of people you communicated on Discord with, did you have luck migrating them out? I'd like to move, but my use is already really minimal and I feel like getting my friend group out is going to be difficult to non-existent in some cases.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    Matrix is what I moved to. To make transition easier for my core friends I wrote a guide with step by step instructions and pre-made a replica of our discord server. I got probably 70% of them to come over.

    The real hit was large communities. For roughly a month I came in daily letting my communities know about what was happening and that I was gonna switch so if people wanted to find me here is where they could find me. I got 3 kinds of replies:

    1. The nihilistic "I'll never escape it, everyone already has my information, why fight it"
    2. (In reference to the ID verification) "I'm not American so I don't care if people have my ID because my country doesn't have the problems America has"
    3. "Moving is too hard and I use one specific feature the other apps don't have and my friends are here so I'll move when they move"

    Moving to the new platform, giving a grace period to friends, and then moving and cutting contact with the platform had the highest success rate. People that want to talk with you will move, even if it's just to only talk with you. But the hardest thing is accepting that some people just don't care about their privacy and want the easy to use features enough that they are willing to lose contact with you.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    None. I was never invested in it very heavily. I had one channel that I was a pretty involved member on but the whole "you don't have to tell them how old you are, they're going to use an algorithm and your usage patterns to deduce it," I was just haha no, fuck that, and I quit.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    Fair enough. I strictly use it for comms in games I play with friends. I'm not active in any other communities and I'm certainly not paying for nitro. I'd like to migrate but getting everyone to do so probably won't happen. I could maybe convince my closest game friends, but I have a clan in a game with people I don't know that we use discord to chat. Definitely not getting all 40+ to move.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    Can't speak for the other person, but I just left. Told my old groups I couldn't stand Discord. Sometimes you don't need an alternative idk I just chat with deferent people on different programs now.

    My irl friends think I'm a weirdo but I'm at peace, and they know how to reach me.

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