Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

The de facto chat client used by gamers, often at the expense of platform-provided solutions, so I hope mods let this fly. Screen sharing of a game window is something that Discord figured out before anyone else, and it still might be the only one in town that works well for that use case. I’m about to start doing more research to see if any other programs can be subbed in, because this sucks. Wario64 facetiously linked a story about Discord getting hacked and revealing government IDs right underneath this story on Bluesky.

  • missingno@fedia.io
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    3 hours ago

    I’m expecting that if/when Discord does fall, people will just go to another corporate-owned platform that hasn’t enshittified yet… but inevitably will. And the cycle will repeat.

    This is what we’re seeing with BlueSky. Sure, BlueSky pays lip service to federation in order to convince users they’re totally different, but in reality they’ve set it up so that nearly everything goes through their master server and they hold control. I don’t trust BlueSky any further than I can throw it, but ActivityPub is clearly losing the battle here.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      For me, I think the thing that keeps Bluesky usable is that I can use it as a straight linear feed without an algorithm. It’s not truly federated, but the thing I’m always thinking about is that gag in South Park where they burn down the local Walmart and accidentally turn Joe’s Drugs into the new Walmart. Bluesky is safe from that as long as I’ve got the algorithm-less feed. Plus, Mastodon still works, always will, and I still use that too. Even if Discord users migrate to some other closed platform, it gives open alternatives more time to catch up to the most important features before that new platform takes a turn, too.