Tbf statistical calculations put grooming on discord in the higher percentages unfortunately.

That said I don't get what their endgame is. Blanket ID verifications will clearly eat into their bottom line, making it unsustainable. Either there's some limits on it that I'm not aware of or they just budget in a huge decrease in margins.

I just don't get the logic of "we do it to fight grooming", because it just doesn't make sense timing wise, but "we do it because UK and Australia are making us do it anyway" also doesn't pan out because I just cannot imagine the predicted results look manageable.

The results are kinda obvious regardless. Losing their core audience and subsequently twisting their bottom line, just like Facebook.

They expect you to give them all your data

Steam groups now work like discord. We're migrating there until I figure out how to host a server of Teamspeak or Mumble.

It's already implemented. Tons of users have already scanned their faces/IDs to prove their identity/age. This is just a global rollout.

I don’t really mind it not being e2e encrypted, since it’s hosted on my own hardware, but that’s good to know.

Yes. Plenty of examples if you search.

I had missed that it doesn’t have voice support. The closest thing to a relatively simple setup I’ve found is VoceChat. It doesn’t self-host voice, but lets you link in a third party known as Agora, who offers free monthly voice minutes, but they’re still a third party. The setup wasn’t the worst, but definitely took careful reading.

I have not seen a single person say this is a good idea. From Reddit, to Twitter, to Bluesky, and Lemmy. It's pretty much universally hated everywhere you go.

Our small friend group server if about 50 people spread across the country immediately started talking about alternatives. People are sick of the constant enshitification. They even brought up wanting one of us to self host whatever we move to so we can prevent this shit.

They're mostly non-tech folks too, they just put up with my open source/privacy convos occasionally 😁

Me and all my brothers (grew up Mormon, I have many brothers) quit both reddit, and now discord.

That’s a good point. I haven’t actually used it in a while. But, my thought on it was if I do it at that specific time and in the hope that others do the same, it sends a message.