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Well Discord is dead

Time to delete my sub

addendum: I still fucking hate this change and am not endorsing it in the slightest I just want to clarify this title is very fucking misleading.

Good resource to share on best things you can do to stop it: cancelnitro.neocities.org #CancelNitro #DiscordIsOverParty

are you fucking kidding me.

Hey! So, on top of emailing/calling Discord to tell them why this is bad, I recommend canceling nitro as soon as March hits (or sooner!) AND sending physical letters if possible! Chances are, they'll try to make it harder to call and email them! And try to get bigger voices talking about it, too!

I tried to get back onto Facebook and they asked me for the same.

nah nah

Fuck it, we gaming on Microsoft Teams chat

I've had my Discord account since 2016, I could've been 9 years old and still be over 18, did they put any thought into this?

First they start that AI bullshit and piss off the moment they realize we're not in for that ride. Now this. It's almost like they want their own platform to die.

upside is that having it lets you cancel it, which is what they track - if you never get it in the first place, you are mostly irrelevant as far as profit stats go (not like that's a bad thing)

Lol stay mad. Ain't nobody cancelling shit

Deleting my account

Alright everyone, you know the drill, bully the shit out of Discord

Time to figure out how to get @stoat.chat running.

The wise man at the nude beach covers his face, not his crotch.

What's next? Retina scans? Ancient blood sacrifice for every time you want to log in? Leave us alone, it's just software.

WHAT?! That’s so goddamn scummy.

Every company thinks they're this once-in-a-lifetime unicorn that can repeat the mistakes of all their predecessors but somehow be the only one to away with them. With the rise of open source options + rising public anger with surveillance tech, they don't realize how replaceable they are.

How many fireworks did you buy last week?

Pesterchum still works!

Yeah, no fuck that, I wish I had a nitro to cancel

Of course not, don't be silly~

or the gmod strategy

Signal Messenger has entered the chat.

support.discord.com/hc/en-us/com... to

Let’s get pissed

well there goes me using Discord anymore their not getting that personal information from me.

I think fucking not. Parent your kids and stop making it my problem. Government already has my data, just fucking look at it. 🖕🤷

I'm genuinely thinking this is a saber rattle of yet another tech company trying to get grift capital, in this case by throwing their lot in with surveillance data freaks In a wide range of areas this won't fly so the bigger question is who shows up to break ankles & become a widespread replacement

No paywall link "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month" archive.today/5wadV

Make it a Google doc for easy copy and pasting

"our data was merely dollar signs to begin with"? What do you mean with that? I would like to understand better, please.

Well.

I think mentioning fascism here feels out of place. It could be replaced with something that doesn’t shift the discussion into politics, but instead keeps the focus on safety and privacy, imo

Everybody should be asking Discord what they have done since last year to protect this information that they weren't doing last year. And when you realize they have no plan, that they are serving their users up for an exponentially larger breach, stop giving them money.

don't blame them - they're just a PR shield. it's an unpaid volunteer position and they won't have any real power.

the statement says the selfies or id never leave the device which aside from being a lie also implies that you could do it without internet but yeah now that youve pointed that out even if they didnt send personal information out they would still need to send out the thing to change you to verified

if I had to guess how it works: - they send through the internet some program able to process the video - the video gets locally process and probably a lot of anstract data gets saved - that data is send over to confirm your age -the server unlocks the 18+ rights maybe though manual action of a dev

it wont

@discord.com fuck you

This is not what internet was created to be

@discord.com is getting very cocky and severely overestimating how much people need them. Good luck with your stupid subscriptions dipshits.

@discord.com Fuck your nanny state bullshit

Pass.

Teamspeak?

Matrix or XMPP. It is necesarry to start using decentralized apps to stop (government) pressure from being able to affect our daily lives.

And I require that Discord suck my nuts.

sigh... Back to team speak it is

whippin out da metahuman :]

Shit man, I have 12h shifts at a dead car dealership. I be on discord calls watching my friends game while I’m at work 😂😂😂

I know a few companies that USE Discord for work, so is being online during work hours a red flag? Or is being away from my computer a red flag? When I worked in corporate software, I was on mobile Discord *during* work. There is too much variance in the human experience for metrics to assume.

And what about those of us that have accumulated over 3X 21 years and are retired?

Down here in Australia, the enforced face scan/ID stuff all got beaten by just uploading a picture of a dog instead. 🤷

I don't give a fuck cuz I'm not doing illegal shit. My face shouldn't be on some flimsy servers cuz someone may be pedo

How I felt with YouTube. They wanted to me conform that I was over 18 when my account is 20 years old.

Data they can sell to make their stocks look better.

Unless "other ways to bring users back" includes "actually we'll use age verification that doesn't involve legal ID," then no. (My AO3 account is 17 years old. Why can't I use that for age verification? It's at least as valid as "let me show you an ID card that I promise is mine, really for true.")

Also, PeerSuite if you absolutely cannot leave a paper trail and can't do account signups as that platform doesn't require signing up for anything, doesn't use servers, and doesn't leave a paper trail by default.

Well, good bye Discord then. Uninstall

Oh look, they waited a few months for things to die down and went ahead with it already, shocker.

I don’t care which social media company asks, I am not handing over my information.

The hell they are

No thank you

Root Chat is just like discord you can even use your discord servers template for your root server

and you don't need to host your own server to make channels and spaces although you can do it if you want to truly own them.

Discord is 11 years old, and therefore won't be allowed full access to its own features.

Discord is actually LESS useful than some of the old tools anyway. Was in a raid group for a game recently and we were all bemoaning being unable to do something that was very easy in Teamspeak. (RIP Teamspeak.)

Pour one out for my IRC homies. May we RIP. 🙏

ICQ...

All my homies remember razor comms

Back to IRC, a forum and teamspeak 3. It worked before it will work again!

Discord managed to overshadow Slack by offering easy video chat & a single account across servers. However, Slack now has video chat & streaming. (It lacks a few other features Discord has, esp for free accounts. But it'll definitely work for "friends chat group" servers.)

And poor old ICQ.

Telegram.

It'll be a bitch to replace but it can be done

Personally, my biggest concern is that it might make downloading some mods a little harder, since I know a few game mods who put their new releases exclusively on Discord. So if those servers get marked as "mature", which will probably be fairly arbitrary, let's be honest, that could be an issue.

And they suck. I barely belong to any servers. There's too much fucking noise, even when I have notifs muted. Let's go back to forums and wikis.

Which is a thing that a few communities have been warning against for a while. Where once knowledge was accessible on some community or hobby forum, on a webpage anyone can access, now you gotta join and shovel through a discord server. Hopefully this is a wakeup call that shows some new migration.

Would it really be that hard to make a second discord?

Very empty treat seeing as no one ever stopped using it and moving to a different platform throughout these many years of the client getting worse with each update. Full of pop up spam ads and taking way too many resources.

imo most people will be fine with such measures bc they have "nothing to hide".

Maybe we'll see a return to old-school forums. Many have lamented the fact that Discord is not indexable, despite being a common place for user support and troubleshooting.