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Discord Is Testing Incode for Age Verification, and the Privacy Concerns Are Legitimate (wp.me)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 43 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They said that the pictures were deleted last time, and we found out later that they weren't. Why would we trust them a second time when they violated our trust the first time?

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    • [–] 40 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    I wish more FOSS communities would use Matrix, Discord sucks so I barely use it anymore

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    When Fluxer gets federation, I really think it will be a great drop-in for Discord. It's very familiar.

    Matrix really isn't a good replacement for Discord. I wish forums were still the thing though, I hate threads in my chat apps.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Fluxer just finally finished their big refactor that brought their code to GitHub for public contribution and they released their revamped selfhosting experience

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Still. Not. Federated.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's on the roadmap, and it's a solo dev

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    It’s on the roadmap

    Kindof like Helix plugin system, Forgejo federation, CoMaps live traffic, etc. I'd rather use something that works right now and not have to wait like 5 years

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  • [+] [S] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Been working on deciding where to move to, not sure if I can get my people to come with but as it stands

    Fluxer - E2EE is iffy at the moment from what I've seen, federation not yet a thing

    Matrix - I don't know of a client that allows audio screenshares which is important when sites keep removing the watchparty features

    MOVIM is entirely text based as far as I can tell

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Matrix - I don’t know of a client that allows audio screenshares which is important when sites keep removing the watchparty features

    If you use Element web with a chrome-based browser you can share a tab playing a video from the same browser. I use Helium to connect to matrix and my Jellyfin server to stream movies regularly. Within the last few months they've added the ability to adjust stream volume as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I assume E2EE is end to end encryption?

    Curious why you care that much. On discord it's all on their servers anyways, so it already doesn't matter.

    If you had to you could self host and set up e2ee for the connection if you wanted to.

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Bye Discord... Hi Element/Matrix haha

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

    We replaced our site's (not-very-used) Discord server with Matrix, and even if a few thousand don't know/didn't follow, we're happier to be on a nicer space than Discord :)

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    • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    My community is in the process to migrate to fluxxer, self-hosted.

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I know there are groups local to me who organise almost entirely on discord, I cannot understand why they choose to do this, even before everything discord has proven to be a very insecure platform

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    As much as i hate this, CSAM sharing accounts are a real problem, and they keep making more and more.

    I wonder what else could be used to counter this ? Device IMEI auth? Im sure we can come up with better than ID verification, which will ultimately make me leave the platform, not because i have something to hide, but because the precedent it sets is dangerous and WILL lead to leaks and breaches.

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    • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    How can Discord users be 100% sure that Discord will delete their very private data after being verified? Where is the source code for that so we can verify it?

    Oh. Wait. Discord is closed sourced...

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