Just think, the next data breach will now include your government issued ID!
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.
Oh no!!
…wait nevermind I already deleted my account a long time aggo.
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.
Pfahahaha deserved
Obligatory https://stoat.chat/ recommendation
Nah, go to Fluxer, it’s better and its getting Federation support
Aint no way I’m convincing my friends to switch again, looks cool though
Matrix with Sable client.
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.What about Stoat?
People still use Discord?
Did nobody learn anything from the last time this happened?
…oh well i can’t get all my friends to-
Your identity just will be stolen.
Discord is too juicy a target, “cybersecurity” doesn’t actually exist, one of their vendors will fuck up.
You’re just fine with that, huh?
Your idiot chucklefuck ‘friends’ are worth that?
So many reddit adjacent communities moved to discord after the Redditpocalypse that I can’t say I’m surprised. I have a discord I don’t actually use. It’s a holdover from when I played D&D with work friends years ago.
Everything seems to have a discord. It’s really popular these days.
Unfortunately when you reach the level of ubiquity that Discord managed, it’s very difficult to convince people to get off of it. Twitter, Reddit still managing to exist is proof that the majority, the vast majority of people just cannot be bothered.
I personally know people that profess to be (and for all intents and purposes are) progressive individuals and they still use the child porn fascism app Twitter, I know people who are still glued to the opinions coming off of the data stealing AI hell-hole Reddit. The average person just can’t be bothered to make the change, they come up with any excuse under the sun to avoid it.
It’s unfortunate but it is the way it is, all you can do is continue to educate people you know, continue to point to alternatives and continue to make that alternative a desirable place to be. Almost everyone has that one vice they just can’t give up, it’s generally hypocritical to attack others for something they can’t give up when we’re all guilty of something else. All we can do is try our best.
discord is a shit tier platform filled with pedophiles.
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.
Double Counter essentially acts as a bouncer bot for Discord servers
If you give a Discord Bot sensitive data, I’m sorry but you’re clearly the issue. Bots are software, you (hopefully) wouldn’t download a random piece of software from an untrusted souce and give it access to your sensitive data and you should apply the same level of caution when it comes to Discord Bots too.
You are victim blaming. Should they have been more cautions with handing over their data, yes. But the fact that they have to, is representative of the bad state of society. It is the fault of the company, people or systems that where trusted by the communities to properly protect it against evil actors. If they cannot protect that data, they shouldn’t have gathered it in the first place. And for that they should get punished properly and should recompense all victims. They should no longer be in business.
Civilization is built on trust, and if that trust erodes, civilization does too.
Stop using Discord. Migrate to matrix https://joinmatrix.org/
Happy with Fluxer. :)
If only matrix was as usable as discord I’m sure a lot of people would
Firstly, it already is. It depends on what client you use.
Secondly, no they wouldn’t. Even when all the work is done for them, nobody moves because nobody cares even when they say they do.
It is. People just need to use an app that actually cares about good UI like Cinny/Sable. Element is trash.
Sable has every feature I could want and then some
Seconded on Sable.
Stoat chat seems pretty decent open source alternative to Discord, tried it for a while and has similar usability, but same issue, “nobody uses it”, also development has been very slow.
It sometimes takes an eternity or two to decrypt my messages, making me really want to agree here.
It is more than usuable though, my only issue with it is the lack of communities other than that both apps and servers are pretty reliable imo
Again?
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.
