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Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 17 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I suppose the next question is where will everyone go? If they wanted to keep kids safe this ain't it because they'll go somewhere else anyways. So it's a lose/lose for everyone.

Possibly a win for companies if they want to harvest data/sell it.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I suppose the next question is where will everyone go?

    time to go back to Xfire, i guess.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Shit, I forgot avout Xfire. Mumble and Teamspeak are still going too

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    yeah i actually just discovered this revival right before posting my comment. It's really neat! Xfire and Discord are always linked in my mind, because i literally first installed Discord because my friends were moving over from Xfire. These days, Steam Chat can do almost everything that Xfire did, so there isn't REALLY a reason for it to exist. But i love seein that ancient UI.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Uh...anywhere? There are plenty of alternatives that are less bloated and less shitty and faster.

    I honestly don't even know why people use it.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    The only times I've ever used Discord are for things that really should have been on a forum, issue tracker, or something like a lemmy community in the first place.

    I hope this causes a return to sanity, but I'm not holding my breath.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Ima be honest here. The last messaging service I used was Facebook back in 2012 prior to discord. And prior to Facebook was MSN messenger lol I really just don't know what's available. I'll have to go do some reading

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