Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file — vulnerability in SDK could log messages and credentials in plaintext
www.tomshardware.com
Thankfully, the issue has since been hotfixed by Arc Raiders, but the fault still lies with Discord

Remember you can trust Discord with your driver’s license for verification, I’m sure they won’t accidentally store them in a plain text open API call or anything.

  • BaraCoded@literature.cafeEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    It’s more than time to move away from Discord.

    So far, on the matrix protocol front, Commet is a good candidate.

    On the XMPP protocol front, Movim is… moving forward, developping a clone interface that is promising.

    There are others, like Stoat and Fluxxer, but I don’t know much about them.

          • BaraCoded@literature.cafeEnglish
            1·
            15 hours ago

            Maybe, but when you’re looking to make discord users migrate to a safer/saner app, you need the new app to be as discord-like as possible.

            Same thing for an OS (thus DE) change, i’d recommend KDE above all else to a windows user because it’s the DE that is the most windows-adjacent.

            • MajinBlayze@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 hours ago

              I understand the impulse, but I think it’s wrong for a few reasons:

              1. Discord didn’t become popular because of its ui. It became popular by lowering barriers to entry.
              2. I don’t think you’ll get a critical mass of people by being “discord but less evil”.
              3. A better ui or ux could be a genuine selling point, or a way to distinguish it

              Sure, kde shares a lot of the conventions of Windows. But it’s also very willing to do its own thing.

              • BaraCoded@literature.cafeEnglish
                1·
                9 hours ago

                You’re entirely right, I’m just presenting it in terms of familiarity, or entry point. People who where used to discord would have an easier time with a discord-like UI and functionalities, but nothing would keep them from exploring other matrix clients in the end (in the case of Commet).