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[-] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.

Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.

Still a no for me for now, but a bit misleading: https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago
[-] intoner@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

Well this is horrid. Must we really all go back to TeamSpeak?

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago
[-] PleasantPeasant@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 hours ago

teamspeak 4 felt like it was in the stone age while discord had a bunch of cool ass features for chatting outside of voice. it also was much more appealing to casuals by being free to use and super easy to set up your own server, whereas setting up your own teamspeak server involved portforwarding and whatnot that turns off the vast majority of "normies"

[-] intoner@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

We left it mostly because there were better services out there + the UI was considered outdated and all. But personally, I'd rather take the outdated UI than have my data stolen.

[-] SpaceCrystal@lemmy.ml 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 22 points 12 hours ago

i wouldn't be so optimistic. normies have a tendency to accept quite a lot.

[-] newcool1230@lemmy.ml 36 points 15 hours ago

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 12 hours ago

is there a practical way to delete all your messages at once?

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

undiscord is good.

[-] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 10 points 13 hours ago

Dude my dnd campaign is run on Discord what the fuck. Do I need to start hosting open source voice and video chat?

[-] PleasantPeasant@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

it's fine as long as you dont have the server marked as 18+

also, supposedly they will be having an ai determine people who are 18+ so you might not even need to upload anything

still, if this leaves too sour of a taste in your mouth the alternatives i can think of off the top of my head are: teamspeak (although i dont think they have teamspeak 6 server files available yet?), riot! (now called stoat apparently?), mumble, matrix, and jitsi meet

oh yeah if you're ok seperating the chat and voice app i really like deltachat for chatting in the group

[-] Geki@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 hours ago

We need something like what Lemmy is to Reddir, except for discord. A decentralized application with multiple instances that users can join.

I have a discord server of about ~1K members, and would love to spin up a docker container to host my own instance that users can join. Chat, voice/ video calls, video streaming, etc. I'd love to support a FOSS project like this. Maybe even have E2E while we're at it!

[-] Kubiac@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

Good old Teamspeak. Everyone can host his own server.

[-] pucker4676@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago

Closest I can think of is Matrix. Element isn't bad.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Matrix is the way, and element is the best so far, but it needs more work.

[-] borrowed_atoms@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Stoat (formerly called Revolt) is potentially that. I tried it a while back and it was still rough around the edges, but the potential was there. Open source and has potential for self hosting.

Stoat.chat

[-] 99zz99@hexbear.net 29 points 16 hours ago

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.

[-] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 49 points 18 hours ago

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 14 points 16 hours ago

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.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 15 hours ago

We should append this, ..." or it is open source"

[-] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 65 points 19 hours ago

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”

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[-] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 47 points 19 hours ago

Goodbye Discord.

Hello Matrix!

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[-] mechanicalant@piefed.zip 52 points 19 hours ago

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 12 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] artwork@lemmy.world 52 points 19 hours ago

Considering the recent "third-party" data breach cases...

[-] incompetent@programming.dev 5 points 10 hours ago

More info for those unfamiliar:

Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed, which our vendor used to review age-related appeals.

[-] tehWrapper@lemmy.world 19 points 18 hours ago

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.>

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

that's probably not much better though. nothing good will come from discord scanning and judging everything we say on it.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 13 points 17 hours ago

gonna fire up good ol' roger wilco for voice chat I guess

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 10 points 17 hours ago
[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

we'd probably be better off with a federated/foss alternative.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Mumble (I've installed a server a while ago and had no fucking idea how to do anything with it, certainly not to the point where I'd feel confident to invite people to it as a discord alternative)

[-] Mwa 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Finally my chance to quit?
Idk

[-] Redtrax@lemmy.ml 13 points 17 hours ago

Deleted 👍🏻

[-] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 18 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 18 hours ago

You made the poor little guy sad. :(

[-] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

I apologize :(

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