I wish we could use something other then discord, like societally
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I wonder what they could be doing to determine "server types" that isn't privacy invasive like reading messages
Edit: it seems discord has published a document that somewhat explains how this works. It's not as detailed as I'd like, but I think it's as detailed as one could expect without them spilling some trade secrets or implying how to bypass it.
https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-estimates-age-without-collecting-your-identity
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And immediately started showing ads for gambling!
The "we estimated your age from account signals" bit is the polite version. Australia made the big platforms do this in December, and the regulator's first report found some of them letting under-16s retry the age check until they passed. So the kids get infinite continues and the adults get checked too.
France tried to ban social media for under-15s this summer and its Constitutional Council struck it down for exactly that reason: to check the kids you have to check everyone, and the law had no privacy guarantees for the adults. Discord just skipped the court part.
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Why does it feel like this has happened every couple months for the last 2 years?
And I still wonβt do it. If they try to shove it down my throat then Iβll stop using it. I donβt need discord. No one does. Thatβs what they donβt get.
Goodbye discord
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I knew about Discord since the very beginning. But it felt always fishy. Why would they provide a service for frees? Teamspeak servers cost money on a monthly basis?
Over the time more and more small communities i liked to interact with were only accessible via Discord. Which was alright because you didnt even need an account to do it. Jump in, do the thing and fuck off.
At some point it was just convenient to make an account with an email adress i dont even remember anymore. Just to keep up with all the niche interest groups. Then a lot of them started to require my phone number. lmao. I just left those "servers".
But ngl over the years i found some communities which will hurt to abandon. The network effect is real. But its maybe time to fuck off forever.
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F that
Fluxer has been an adequate replacement for my ttrpg group, for anyone else looking for alternatives.
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So what you are saying is your initial version violated our privacy? Tell us more discord, how EXACTLY did it infringe on our privacy? What made you say that? We want to hear it from you.
My account is over 11 years old and still cannot see nsfw. Need to be 13 to start using discord so it should automatically age verify me to 24+. But they just want an excuse to track people 100%
I hate discord but I canβt convince the people I talk to to go elsewhere. And discord just this evening said my account of nine years is too young to see nsfw channels. Par for the course
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Discord helps creating the problem, and gleefully announces a "least bad" option after laws are in place. Hmm.
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discord ain't even loading for me, so I think I've already been cut off
A good federated alternative to Discord is Movim.
This sucks but isn't surprising.
It's frustrating though, because getting friends to use anything else, let alone bigger communities that i follow, is nigh impossible.
Fluxer. We switch to Fluxer.
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Jammi anybody? I just installed it.
I can't believe any of you people have accounts left. Didn't you delete it after the last round of bullshit? Frankly if you stuck around you deserve bad things happening to you.
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