2026-09-05 21:40 UTC
Replies (15)
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@myyass@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 00:54
I’m over 400 years old and if you don’t believe me, I still use teamspeak.
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@DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 2026-09-06 03:18
Good thing Matrix and XMPP as alternatives.
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@LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 03:45
Moved onto Matrix a while ago because of this. Gonna be real, Discord is better but all Matrix asked me for was hardware verification. I fucking hate this ID verification thing. Like we are going to see a sharp spark in identity theft going forward. …and shit, I might be part of it. I had to verify with an ID to get my CompTIA tests, which I passed. I am still arguing with Pearson to delete my personal data, but I might be in the shitter with all the others getting their identity stolen.
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@pycorax@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 04:14
The selfie method stands out: on-device processing with no video retained is a meaningful privacy distinction. Yea I don’t buy it
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@BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.social 2026-09-05 23:09
IRC exists and works great! :D I’m on a self hosted network that is active almost around the clock, full of chill, wholesome and welcoming people. I can PM details for anyone who wants to come check us out (there is a webchat option, no need to set up a IRC client if you just want to have a look), don’t know if advertising is frowned upon here or not and I don’t want to spam or upset anyone. Edit: Since my account is too young to be sending private messages to strangers, I’ll add the info here: The server address is irc.inthemansion.com port: 6697 Join #lobby and say “hello” :) Web chat can be found on the front page here https://inthemansion.com/ it will by default make you join #lobby. So if you are unfamiliar with IRC, that is the easiest way to try it out.
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-09-05 22:05
Fluxer continues rapid development and is now self-hostable.
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@harrybo93@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 08:16
Ha! Well, I’m glad we moved our gaming community off of it when all this kicked off first time round, knowing full well it wouldn’t be the last time they tried this shit. We started entirely self hosting our community to focus on user privacy and haven’t looked back since. If people want a link to join, comment or DM, I don’t want this to come across like a sales pitch or shill lol
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@antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 2026-09-06 08:19
Good thing I made a Discord alternative that is using p2p and thus making it impossible to verify the age of any user.
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@Gonzako@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 08:56
They moved my local D&D group onto discordia and ended up kicking me out of a session I wanted to attend.
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@spacegoat@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 09:49
Discord is perhaps the most unnecessary and readily replaceable service and they don’t seem to realize how short their time is
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@northertech@fedia.io 2026-09-06 18:43
For people that want advice for finding an alternative service, go to the github repo and figure out the state of development. Find the answers to these questions: how many active developers are there? when was the last commit? does this look like LLM code? What do the issues and PRs look like? Remember that we don't want to have to do this again in 10 years, so open source and decentralized are major points.
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@Dequei@piefed.social 2026-09-05 22:17
My friends and I are in Matrix with the Sable client since march and we are really happy with it.
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@Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 2026-09-06 16:42
I hope it helps boost up Matrix as people look to jump ship, I’m pretty happy with Fluffychat.
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@Pika@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-06 17:57
Google Wallet users can share a passport ID pass; Google sends Discord a birthdate, and Discord derives age from it without retaining that date. … if google wallet is determining it anyway, why can’t google wallet just reply yes or no to the “is over 17” query… it seems like discord wouldn’t need to know exact age at all in that flow.
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@unglueclass23@programming.dev 2026-09-07 08:39
I don’t really understand after reading the article what changed? All they did was quote discords blog post from February and this random twitter account … that also had no sources. Not to mention the article is AI slop. Is this like some sort of reminder or something? huh?