• socsa
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    18 minutes ago

    This is a good thing because it will kill discord

  • Pika
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    134 hours ago

    I mean I’m usually not the skeptic when it comes to privacy rights, but it’s hard for me to defend against an action like this. Because I don’t see a purpose of needing that information outside of the intent to sell to third party

    • @clgoh@lemmy.ca
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      112 minutes ago

      Social media are more and more required by law to prevent kids from using their service. I don’t see a way to achieve that with no risks to privacy.

      • @kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        226 minutes ago

        I personally use Matrix.org so I can just set up a chat room and itll be hosted there. Of course if you want to self host a matrix instance for you and your friends thats an option, or some of your friends can use the self hosted instance and some other instances (Matrix is a federated protocol).

    • @OmgItBurns@discuss.online
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      34 hours ago

      Maybe it’s the interests I have, but those chat rooms may have people but not a lot of activity. Also, the specific people I want to chat with don’t use Matrix.

  • katy ✨
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    618 hours ago

    getting a bunch of minors to take selfies of themselves to upload to a server somewhere while training an ai model will definitely have no problems…

    • @SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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      267 hours ago

      Thing is Discord will have no problems getting them to do it. By the time any legal proceedings against it work their way through the legal system, the damage will long since have been done. Discord will have made the money from the data they collected, the AI models will be done, and the need for more pictures will be non-existent.

  • @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    55 hours ago

    Hmmm. So how long before another AI is able to generate a good enough face to fool the age verification AI (or can it already)? Interesting three-legged race there.

  • @perestroika@lemm.ee
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    I would recommend Signal and maybe Tox (protocol, has several clients).

    Signal is a nonprofit. They make it a point not to collect your data. Just the phone number. Military folks seem to like them.

    Tox is not a centralized entity at all, anarchists seem to like it. Multiple Tox clients exist and use a common protocol and network. Messaging happens via peer-to-peer, lookups make use of servers. For messaging to occur, both communicating parties have to be online, so don’t expect much convenience.

    • Pika
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      24 hours ago

      Oh my God it’s been so many years since I’ve heard of tox I set up a q-tox account years ago, then no one used the platform so I just let it rest. I think I have my identity key is still stored on my developer sync, I forgot that platform existed

    • Pika
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      14 hours ago

      Oh my God it’s been so many years since I’ve heard of tox I set up a q-tox account years ago, then no one used the platform so I just let it rest. I think I have my identity key is still stored on my developer sync, I forgot that platform existed

    • nocturne
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      36 hours ago

      I use signal with my wife and daughter for texting, does it also offer group servers? I keep in touch with most of my business customers through my shop’s discord server.

      • @mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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        24 hours ago

        It does group messaging, it’s not the same as discord, but I’m not sure what all features you need in a group chat room.

    • nocturne
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      16 hours ago

      I use signal with my wife and daughter for texting, does it also offer group servers? I keep in touch with most of my business customers through my shop’s discord server.

  • @nixcamic@lemmy.world
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    66 hours ago

    As someone who looks significantly younger than they are, I’m curious as to how this will work.

  • @Mwa@lemm.ee
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    if that happens to me and discord wants me to send selfies to my self,Am going to Matrix and maybe use my discord alt to take to my friends who dont wanna use matrix.

      • @Mwa@lemm.ee
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        its hard to do due to mentioned reason and btw i got banned from discord back in 2020 made a acc again in 2021 and i already use matrix

  • GHiLA
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    36 hours ago

    There goes accessing Stalker:GAMMA and tons of other game mods.

  • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    68 hours ago

    If you have a discord account, they already know who you are. If you tried to get an account anonymously, they’d ban you and demand a phone number.

    I never used discord because it was never possible to do so securely. Friends dont let friends use discord.

    Use matrix or something better.

    • @1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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      177 hours ago

      listen we need to have a chat,

      you and me and some others on here understand using matrix and signal and whatever for E2EE chats. The people who use discord/facebook messenger/imessage/sms/whatsapp DO NOT GIVE A SHIT about this stuff. They are only going to use what is in pop culture. That’s how it is and i know it sucks, but people think its easy to “Get your family/friends over” whey they laugh at you and say “im not downloading just use x plz”

      • @Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world
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        85 hours ago

        Here’s the thing… People who care still use Discord. I’m one of them. I have no other option for maintaining communications with a group of 20 people I have been gaming with since 2009. We’ve all hopped from Skype to Teamspeak to Ventrillo to Discord. There’s no going back for many of these people.

        Like it or not, Discord offers a product that Signal, Briar, or any other Matrix chat offers and that’s accessibility. I would love for a mainstream E2EE chat program that actually can host a 15 person call, hold multiple chatrooms in one server, allow screen sharing, streaming and multimedia sharing.

        We can’t just live in a vacuum and claim nobody uses these programs because they’re stupid or don’t care. For many, like me, Discord a reasonable security risk people are willing to take in order to maintain communications with people they care about.

        • @1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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          25 hours ago

          This in turn is the problem im speaking about. We could go on about it all day. The only people that will use these tools for the most part are us. So naturally we should just be talking to each other, but yeah when it comes to our personal group, not happening.

    • DarkThoughts
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      The annoying thing is that a lot of support or even downloadable content is on Discord exclusively. We’ve had similar shitty trends with Facebook, Tumblr, etc. and it just is annoying. People claim it’s where most people are but ignore the fact that it is impossible to access for everyone who is not.

      • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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        47 hours ago

        Yeah, using authwalled websites is stupid.

        In my country politicians upload their policies exclusively on authwalled sites. The website just links to authwalled social media accounts. Its infuriating.