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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
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Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default "teen-appropriate" experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

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[–] sandbag@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Root? What's that from what I've heard a lot of people are moving to stoat.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Intro to Root that I watched

Root app's website

I made a Root account and run it on NixOS through their appimage. I'm waiting on my friend to get it so I can test the voicechat and screen share but so far it's functional and has 2 awesome features that Discord doesn't have. Reply to more than 1 comment with only 1 of your messages. Tabs on the top similar to a browser, it's just more natural for me than the sidebar shit.

In the mean time I'm still probably gonna host a Matrix server with a VPS incase Root ever decides to pull a Discord.

Plus I just don't like the name "Stoat." xD "Get on Stoat bro" Sounds weird.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Real question, what stops Root from having the same problems as Discord?

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

For now they're really incentivized to not be douchebags to grow their company, at least for the a year or two imo. Which is plenty of time for people like us to figure out how to host our own shit so we don't have to decide whether we want convenience or privacy/security.

But I'm still hopeful for Root just like I'm hopeful for a company like Steam continues to stay decent.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Plus I just don't like the name "Stoat." xD "Get on Stoat bro" Sounds weird.

This is actually the main reason I believe most of these discord alternatives have zero chance at becoming mainstream. Name is 75% of the success. Just think about it.