Basically, it’s the worst Discord hack via a third-party service provider since the last Discord hack via a third-party service provider, which occurred almost a year to the day ago – spooky!

LOL wow that thing that everyone said would happen, happened. Again.

Does anyone have that sweet gif of Ms. Rachel and Mamdani?

Plot twist, it’s a “rogue AI” doing data collection.

Thank god everyone was kept safe by this...

Again?

Discord is less a messaging platform these days as just like an open source data aggregation service for cyber criminals. It's like they have a huge data leak every 6 months or so.

Deleted my Discord a long time ago since I rarely used it, the only thing that sucks is when trying to do game jams with others it’s the only option, so I haven’t been able to do any…
But still this is better than having Discord.

Stop using Discord. Migrate to matrix https://joinmatrix.org/

And yet Discord still blocks using anonaddy addresses to sign up.

I always hated how invasive double counter was. Besides being a bouncer it's also been used a stalking tool to find out peoples alt accounts and harass them.

Pfahahaha deserved

Now lets start adding in present day photos (for the children only, gotta keep them safe! oh and they must be in swimwear for extra security).

Discord is out there tripping itself over, quietly poking TeamSpeak “hey, maybe you could make a comeback to break our VoIP monopoly?”, meanwhile TS sits it out quietly developing at a snail’s pace.

Then we’ve got Stoat, Fluxer, and what’s not currently the trending obscure alternative (think like Guilded was too). They’re all too obscure, and most of time these apps are unsigned & lack notarisation so their code safety is a matter of “trust me” (a wise person doesn’t install random junk on their PC, regardless of it being FOSS or not - one rogue maintainer is enough to bring risk; unless they’ve gone even half as serious as Debian or other highly reputable FOSS). Adding to their obscurity, I doubt anybody is going to materialise new friends into existence by sheer willpower, will they?

Unless something happens that makes the casual Discorders jump off their platform, these hiccups are largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Yes, they’re serious. No, they still won’t make people ditch Discord - at worst they’ll keep obscure platform XYZ for contacting friend group 1, and still use Discord for their daily communities and acquaintances who don’t keep up with any tech news (like privacy leaks) at all.

That’s just some food for thought, I’m not actually going to debate about what I wrote (no time for such things!) Nevertheless, I sincerely hope Discord flops over, and a bunch of better alternatives appears.

discord is a shit tier platform filled with pedophiles.

Obligatory https://stoat.chat/ recommendation

Oh no!!

...wait nevermind I already deleted my account a long time aggo.

Who could have ever expected that?

Yeah, definitely looks like a service you'd want to voluntarily submit id's and face photos to.