Discord

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38950187

What the actual fuck is this shit and how do I turn it off? I don't want to see status' ever

Discord's recent announcement of mandatory age verification for all users has sent the community scrambling for alternatives. Search volume for "Discord alternatives" spiked 10,000% overnight, with Matrix seeing a 2,133% increase and the relatively unknown Stoat (formerly Revolt) jumping 9,900%. As someone who's been self-hosting Matrix for a while now and recently dove deep into evaluating alternatives, I figured it's time to document what I've learned.

This isn't going to be a gentle guide for people who just want something that "works like Discord." If that's you, honestly, stick with Discord and deal with their ID requirements. This post is for people who actually want to understand the technical tradeoffs, the real architectural differences, and the honest-to-god pain points of each platform. No hand-holding, no sugar-coating.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/25725761

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42945350

Hey @discordapp
I know you didn't intend that one survey link to get responses from the entire internet about #AI but really you SHOULD have asked that of the whole userbase not just a few people

@discordapp please fix your update mechanism. It is outrageous that I understand discord has an update, just because a video call failed and I have to remember to killall Discord to see that it actually auto-updated...

Do you think discord will shut down?

TLDR: Double Counter stores a bunch of semi personally identifiable information for the purpose of identifying you and your alt accounts!! be careful!!

Double Counter is a discord bot that detects alt accounts through a variety of techniques, including IP and browser fingerprinting, and probably others which I don't know of.

if your account is flagged, the information (with you and your suspected alt) is sent to the server moderators. they also have a paid service that you can subscribe to in order to search their database of discord profiles for alts.

the paid service is opt-out-able, using a command, but the command is not available in DMs so you will have to use it in a server with Double Counter in it, and some server channels don't allow it.

data deletion is only partially (it's only stated that they will delete your IP) and locked in their server, behind a 10 minute wait.

I just requested a copy of my data (which is sent by email, you have to fill in an email) but it hasn't arrived yet - apparently right now (August 5) that system is down

update: August 16, still down

anyways this whole thing screams red flags to me & if you get a message from it telling you to verify, use caution!!!! you have to click a link to get to the verify page, that's how it collects your information.

Hey everyone! I know adding bots to a Discord server might seem super easy to some people, but for anyone who’s new to Discord or just starting to customize their own server, it can actually be a little confusing i hope this help you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwMpih2_2Q8

I'm trying to delete my account and start over fresh but everytime I remove my phone number it says that "suspicious activity" has been detected and the only way to verify my account is to put the phone number back on.

Can someone please help me stop this circular logic?

So I'm able to share my wayland screen from both firefox and ungoogled-chromium using pipewire+xdg-desktop-portal-wlr. However my stream has no audio.

I've found several posts on the internet of 3-4 years ago (e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/lfxbik/tutorial_how_to_share_audio_on_discord_or_any/ ) where people just had an extra audio input in pipewire when sharing screen to which they could route their game audio. But for me there's only my microphone input and chromium says "To share audio, share the tab instead" when screen sharing.

Has anyone been able to get audio working?

upd: Vesktop is what worked for me

This appears to be the first post about it in the Lemmiverse (for this instance), so... here we go!

After Profile effects and Avatar decorations, you can now buy Name Plates for your profile.

Honestly, this is the type of monetization that I dislike the least, considering the alternatives. You don't even have to have Nitro afaik, the premium subscription that allows mostly cosmetic perks