▲ 1620 ▼ 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com) submitted 9 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 441 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago (3 children) Discord has E2EE? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (2 children) It has QR based sign in. Shit, Steam has QR based sign in so it shouldn't be weird for people at this point. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago So do "Smart TV" apps. Or messenger like Signal. That is really a common thing nowadays. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago I've seen QR-based login before as an option. (Heck, I was an early adopter of SQRL...or tried to be. Sadly that protocol never went anywhere.) But it's not typically mandatory, and I don't think most casual users (the kinds of people who just reuse the same password everywhere rather than using a password manager) aren't likely to be especially comfortable with it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (2 children) It has QR based sign in. Shit, Steam has QR based sign in so it shouldn't be weird for people at this point. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago So do "Smart TV" apps. Or messenger like Signal. That is really a common thing nowadays. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago I've seen QR-based login before as an option. (Heck, I was an early adopter of SQRL...or tried to be. Sadly that protocol never went anywhere.) But it's not typically mandatory, and I don't think most casual users (the kinds of people who just reuse the same password everywhere rather than using a password manager) aren't likely to be especially comfortable with it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago So do "Smart TV" apps. Or messenger like Signal. That is really a common thing nowadays. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago I've seen QR-based login before as an option. (Heck, I was an early adopter of SQRL...or tried to be. Sadly that protocol never went anywhere.) But it's not typically mandatory, and I don't think most casual users (the kinds of people who just reuse the same password everywhere rather than using a password manager) aren't likely to be especially comfortable with it. permalink fedilink source parent