Technology

Always hated discord mostly as a technology, now i just hate it as is.

Fuck discord. From now I am in matrix.

Ok. Well I will delete my account then.

This kind of enshittification is intolerable. The reason this exists is solely to tie your online behaviour to your real life identity.

“They” want to control people’s conversations in the digital third spaces. And to find ways to punish you for the thoughts they disapprove of. Discord is happy to sell that data to whomever is buying it.

Oh well. More fediverse, please!

https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

Discord is not needed. Quit. Kill it. Watch them BEG to get us back, then say no.

Month after they'll need a semen sample and hat size.

And people will do it.

The German ~~passport~~ ID card (and I'm sure many others) has a NFC chip in it and you can use it with an open source app to securely prove your identity online. In cases like this, the only information pulled from your ID would be "over 18" or "not over 18".

It's one of the few things my government did right in the digital space. And yet almost nobody in the private sector uses this. I'm tired of being asked to upload a photo of my ID for age verification.

“For most adults, age verification won’t be required, as Discord’s age inference model uses account information such as account tenure, device and activity data, and aggregated, high-level patterns across Discord communities. Discord does not use private messages or any message content in this process,”

The inference model probably sucks and will fail yo distinguish a lot of users.

Each day that pass we get closer from Chinese internet

Fucking seriously? One of the last places I still have a fucking community and now I'm going to get kicked from it cause corporate assholes can't learn to respect fucking privacy?

My discord account is ELEVEN YEARS OLD !? Why would I ever need to prove that I am not a teen !? I would have had to create my account when I was 6 years old to still be a teen with this account, which is obviously ridiculous.

Discord leaked my email. How do I know it was Discord? Because that email address was specifically for Discord. Anyways, now that email is full of spam. Anyways anyways, no way I am letting them leak my face

Slightly Off-Topic:

I never liked Discord. First and foremost, nowadays, I cannot log into it when I am using a VPN. And back when I could, it always felt so laggy and clunky.

I think todays society is not used to performant software. Everyone just buys a new computer/smartphone every year or every 2 years or so, so they probably have compute power to run whatsoever. I run old shit. 13 year old desktops or so, with no dedicated graphics card, old smartphones, etc. I need software to be performant.

If that's true then rest in peace discord. Or rest in hell I should say.

Badalich also says after the October data breach, Discord “immediately stopped doing any sort of age verification flows with that vendor” and is now using a different third-party vendor.

Oh thanks, it's fixed

The ID is immediately deleted. We do not keep any information around like your name, the city that you live in, if you used a birth certificate or something else, any of that information.

Suure

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally

So in other words, if you only use Discord as a messaging app and for small servers between friends, this won't affect you?

I honestly have no idea why Discord started trying to push itself as some normal social media like Facebook, and why people started treating it as such. Discord was a glorified telephone line with gifs and web links. I don't need some manufactured sense of "community" among thousands of people who happen to watch the same YouTuber as me.

I hope the trick with photo modes in games still works. If not I will be leaving discord despite many good friends and communities I have on it.

I prefer Discworld.