Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.
Too late Discord. I will never come back.
A nothingburger apology that follows the same patterns every company does
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Introduce outrageous thing
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Apologize
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delay outrageous thing by a few months and hope people forgot about it, then do it again
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This reminded me a whole lot of OnlyFans deciding to ban porn.
Just… stupid.
Too late! I’m moving to Fluxer!
Discord: Sorry, we spied and report on you through software from a bad company. Be assured, we will spy and report on you through good company software from now on!
I dunno. The current state of the world might be making me more conspiracy-minded, but this feels like it was always part of the plan.
Introduce surveillance tech that Peter Thiel can use to spy/sell/whatever, announce that you’re using it, expecting people to get angry, and now in the 11th hour, after harvesting all the data they get to announce “we’re removing the evil software! We’re the good guys again!”
I recognize that the current state of affairs is having me see demons everywhere, but I just can’t bring myself to give discord a pat on the back.
It’s worse than that. They’ve said what they want to do and they want to get rid of democracy in place of a technocracy surveillance state.
[Insert South Park “We’re Sorry” scene here]
Also, given the state of affairs and the lack of trust, I dont believe they are cutting them off. Assume the worst and do what you can to decouple from the platform I dont expect people to quit cold-turkey, but put in the effort, it takes a long time to degoogle yourself and given how ubiquitous discord was during the plague, I dont fault people for making sure lines of communication and contacts arnt broken.
I tried hosting my own TS server recently and it’s easy as shit. Not as many features sure, but it’s so snappy and it just works. Ideally I’d move to mumble and host it on some old laptop but as a backup thing I can’t complain
Teamspeak requires you to pay for a license to host a community of greater than 32 people though. I have much more faith in Fluxer, which just came out recently and has its servers getting hammered right now. It will have true self-hosting and federation. Also it looks exactly like Discord which probably makes moving to it easier.
https://matrix.org/ has been around for years and has had true self-hosting and federation from the start.
Trump, thiel, musk - all their dads were Nazis.
Trump’s dad hated black people and sheltered Nazis and the KKK, Thiel’s dad is from a Nazi town in South Africa, Musk’s father and grandfather went to South Africa just for the racism.
They’re all stuck in that, and catching feelings because of it.
Reminder: this changes nothing in their age verification requirements or telemetry gathering and training off your data/habits. They’re just going to use another invasive third party.
Exactly! If you care about your data, this is the last straw for Discord. My friends and I moved to a new platform, and everyone should do the same.
Where did you move? We’re planning on stoat for our little server
We should pretty much assume that all age verification efforts either currently are feeding into surveillance efforts, or will be bought out by surveillance companies.
Exactly. Even if a smaller company is running ID verification now there’s a very good chance they’ll be bought up by a monster later and take all that data with them.
Too fuckin bad Discord. Damage is done.
Thiel is in the Epstein files, literally is funding the destruction of our democracy and all democracies worldwide everyone Thiel should be arrested and charged with treason and sent to the hauge and be tried for crimes against humanity
Not just in them, good friends with Epstein and conspired with him to destabilise the west.
Whoops we accidentally picked something that will give the government your data. That wasn’t our intention. Instead we’re going to use an independent service so the government will have to buy it from us.
Discord is fucked. You love to see it.
I went back to IRC a couple of weeks ago and it’s been such a breath of fresh air to use good technology again.
Matrix might be worth a try too. It’s kind of like a modernized IRC with limited discord-like functionality.
Stoat also seems pretty good, though it’s more centralized than I’d like.
