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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts (fortune.com)
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Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

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[–] popcar2@piefed.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Teamspeak requires you to pay for a license to host a community of greater than 32 people though. I have much more faith in Fluxer, which just came out recently and has its servers getting hammered right now. It will have true self-hosting and federation. Also it looks exactly like Discord which probably makes moving to it easier.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer

Neat

Maybe I can spin something up for family to use instead of SMS.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Check out the snikket server/app, it's a complete setup that uses an XMPP server and clients with a focus on families and close friends

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ive already got xmpp, its more a client thing for them I think.

The discord-esque look I think works. Though if you've got a client rec for xmpp with a similar feel, for that I'm all ears.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

on desktop I tried gajim and it was good

on android snikket has an official client, it is a fork of conversations.im (they fork it so the client as the same name in every platform to avoid confusing users) i haven't found a client for android/ios that matches discord feel tho

edit: forgot to say snikket is also on ios

[–] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://matrix.org/ has been around for years and has had true self-hosting and federation from the start.

[–] popcar2@piefed.ca 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Matrix is lacking all sorts of features and proper UX. I used it through multiple front-ends and every time it's just not good enough yet.

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

What features would you want to see, currently my only gripe is that the screen sharing doesn't stream audio