I'm actually pretty happy that Discord is killing itself. Far too many people use it as an official platform for stuff like help forums.

Maybe lets go back to basic message boards that are actually searchable, etc.

For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”

Just a few months ago they had a data leak which proved that they were indeed /not/ deleting documents and ID's like they had been claiming.

Granted in that case it was mostly countries that force keeping that data but, I'm sick of companies lying and saying "lol yea we defo delete the data after"

Let's protect the children by scanning everyone's face and ID and uploading them to a server that'll get hacked five years from now.

Yeah, no. Companies don't get to scan my face or ID. You know they are selling your data.

This is great news! Discord shooting itself in the foot is a net positive for the whole world.

Well, looks like I'm leaving discord.

Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.

...damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can't have nice things.

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they got a massive leak for gov IDs last year? And they still pushing this bs?! Hello?

I guess I'm going to be a teenager again! If only it meant I could not go to work and spend 8 hours a day playing games.

I will use AI image generation, such as "Thispersondoesnotexist". They can have an imaginary face for their data brokers.

Rest in peace then

I'll gladly scan a face. I just happen to look exactly like Gale Dekarios

Does anyone know any good tools/methods for archiving entire servers/all your DMs?

Already happened in Australia. I can't access NSFW channels, unless I do a face scan (no thanks).

I would barely be okay with a bank or government website asking for this information, I sure as shit would not give it to a fucking chat app.

this is making my ttrpg group actually consider letting me host stuff for them and I'm unironically thrilled... so like, matrix is the way, right? Or should I be looking at mumble or something?

It's always been IRC with extra censorship.

And the garbage takes itself out, marvelous.

In us too? I'm not giving my license

For those looking for an alternative, try stoat.chat or matrix

Wow I guess I get to finally dump Discord as my last proprietary chat app.

There are lots of self hosted alternatives like Mattermost, Mumble, and Matrix (decentralized).

There's also the new Freenet River demo: https://freenet.org/quickstart/

Maybe I'll make my own discord clone lol.

Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult

from the official release.

Big brother, is that you?

If the pushback on social media doesn't get Discord to drop these plans, then I'll just have to delete the app.

Not caving to another app asking for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) only for this same data to be leaked months to years later.

Society will do everything to protect children aside from making better parents.

Stoat it is lol (https://stoat.chat)

discord. the platform that has a huge pedophile problem? the platform that's sympathetic towards conservative shitheads?

that discord?