Technology

Discord age restrictions prevent an underage user from viewing - but not sending - nude pictures.

This isn't to protect kids. It's to enforce increasingly authoritarian control over the web.

Discord probably did the math and are willing to take a hit to the user counts (much like reddit did when they closed the apis), as the vast majority will stay and keep "threatening" to leave. There's at least the hope that the ones who quit now will establish communities elsewhere, on a (hopefully) better server platform.

Here's hoping this gets more software off the discord support teat. No, you do not need real time chat, you need searchable, permanent presence. Discord support is such a red flag I immediately move on even if it's OSS. If you can't do real doco and you can't stand up a forum (Discourse is nice I hear) then what chance do you have of being competent.

Also, IPO incoming, expect it to get worse.

Account deleted. Fuck em. Was already pissed with their restrictions with nitro.

Why do adults have to suffer because parents don’t know how to control their kids?

Maybe people will finally realize discord isn't the place for your projects documentation to exist

Good! locking away potentially helpful Q&A, discussions, and guides on Discord is fucking stupid.

Worried about the children while protecting thousands of paedophiles that raped children. (The governments, not discord)

Regardless, fuck discord and instead of "threatening" an exodus, why doesn't everybody register with xmpp or mumble and figure it out from there. Crazy staying on discord from here on.

So happy. Discord sucks.

TIL people actually pay for nitro lol.

Sadly, but another good platform has rotten.

do it cowards. leave now.

Don't threat

Sadly I think the end result of this won't be people leaving discord, but people giving up liberties because it's easier than fighting it

And they're banking on that, it's part of why they intentionally gave zero warning...1 month is nothing.

With more time a dedicated set of people could pull the alternatives up into solid real options

Or kick up such a huge ruckus that discord back down and undo it.

This was a very intentional and malicious choice to go "oh, yeah we're doing this next month, kthnxbye"

Do it, pussies. I remember when sites would actually topple when they made poor decisions.

I could just be me being a doomer, but I doubt any significant exodus will happen. People really about to drop discord? Right…

I deleted my Discord account last night. Good riddance.

Someone on Reddit claims reddit will do the same soon. I wonder if it's govt pressure.

I'm not threatening, I'm gonna do it. We'll see how my game jams go after this. I doubt my entire community will follow me.

Edit: I downloaded Element X for Matrix, and it seems to only be capable of creating a single chat similar to WhatsApp. Tried to download Revolt, and I cant get that one to even send me a verification code to my email. Starting of strong here...

Yet again XMPP is ignored in the comments🥲

How hard is this type of service, as a self hosted docker app, to develop?

Wouldn’t most of the underlying codec and streaming technologies be more or less extendable into a platform?

sure they're leaving but...where? what's a viable alternative?

I mean if I had it my way everyone would just go back to IRC, I still use IRC. it's great, nothings changed, it's perfect. combine that with like mumble or teamspeak and you're good to go.

I checked out Stoat lastnight and it's very slow. took well over an hour to get a verification email (I assume because many others were signing up) and the current server offerings are minimal. Also a good majority of the themes listed simply don't work. it's growing and I'd say it's the best alternative right now but it's not there yet and I worry it or the various instances of it could hold up if there was a massive Discord exodus.

Matrix is a no and xmpp ain't much better.