'I cannot trust tech companies with that kind of personal data': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks – and they have a point
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Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March – and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.
  • MushuChupacabra@piefed.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    I think that they backtracked after the public backlash.

    If i was a shareholder, I’d demand that they fire whoever insisted on this ID verification bullshit.

    There is zero chance that they could not have predicted the blowback, and it is all but certain that they were warned to consider the consequences.

    Fire them.

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Still no backtracking has happened. Must that’s happened it’s a “clarification”, which is basically “we’re still doing it, you’re getting such a silly baka for thinking we will make the same mistake as to leak again though 😁”

  • Zabby [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    I’m very curious… For anyone here that uses Discord, how often are you using the voice calls / screen shares?

    Versus how often are you typing / sharing memes?

    • moncharleskey@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Text chat for day to day, voice for gaming, screen share for support or whatever, never use video.

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      Stoat.chat and XMPP

      also Teamspeak, Ventrilo and Mumble are still around, they just feel incredibly dated and old by comparison to modern apps

      • themachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        Don’t sleep on the Teamspeak 6 beta. It is very close to being a total discord replacement and in its current form is still extremely usable.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      Matrix and Teamspeak are the big ones, ive seen people talking about XMPP and other self-hosted solutions. The real issue people are waking up to is that if you dont host your communication tools, you dont own them.

      The self-hosting community is buzzing with people spooling up their own services and getting ready to abandon discord. If you or people in your circles need help setting stuff up, just ask. Plenty of helpful nerds and guides are around.

    • themachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Check out the Teamspeak 6 beta. I’ve checked out probably all the most popular discord alternatives at this point (as I refuse to use it and am always looking for something to convince others to get off of it) and the TS6 beta is almost right there as far as core features and experience goes.

      • tyler@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        9 hours ago

        Probably because open source alternatives have had decades to do better and still haven’t.

            • Statick@feddit.onlineEnglish
              1·
              1 hour ago

              It got an influx of people and is laggy, but when it works… it honestly feels just like discord. I haven’t seen screen sharing working yet but the dev in the discord was saying he was working on an update to alleviate the lag and it would make self-hosting easier, which would also help alleviate lag indirectly