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A lot of people use Discord now. I mean, you can use it inside of a browser, what can be easier than that?
Seems to be designed for games only, or did I end up in a targeted landing page?
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+ screen sharing
That and video seem to be the only things missing from Discord.
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There have been a lot of instances of this happening to feminist or LGBT groups on Facebook and YouTube. These systems are fantastically abusable.
If I were setting up an automated abuse-report-receiving system that could automatically disable accounts, I would run some sort of filter for "is the account reporting the abuse itself a newly created account, and/or one with suspiciously low and non-human looking usage patterns?". But on the other side, malicious actors can solve that problem by having clickfarm workers in bangladesh create 30 fake facebook account…
That does not help against these kiddy vandals mentioned in the article.
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If I were setting up an automated abuse-report-receiving system that could automatically disable accounts, I would run some sort of filter for "is the account reporting the abuse itself a newly created account, and/or one with suspiciously low and non-human looking usage patterns?". But on the other side, malicious actors can solve that problem by having clickfarm workers in bangladesh create 30 fake facebook account…
> If I were setting up an automated abuse-report-receiving system that could automatically disable accounts, I would run some sort of filter for "is the account reporting the abuse itself a newly created account, and/or one with suspiciously low and non-human looking usage patterns?". That does not help against these kiddy vandals mentioned in the article.
It's the same issue as in any big system - people on high enough positions are isolated from all the crap normal users have to deal with. If you can interrupt their business call though... I expect the fix will be coming soon.
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This. People talk about various alternatives, but I haven't seen one. The requirements are pretty simple 1) Chat and group chat (persistent) 2) Simple file transfer and image posting in chat 3) Good quality voice calls, video calls and group voice calls 4) Apps for android/iOS with shared contact lists 5) Single application for all of the above (to enable a single group set, switching between group chat and group cal…
Google hangouts?
I very much prefer not to have to use a browser window for chat/voice/video.
I feel like this could be fixed very quickly if someone wanted to invest the time and was a bit on the chaotic side. 1) find Skype IDs of Microsoft managers, known people, big businesses with ties to MS 2) create 20+ fake accounts 3) start reporting abuse... It's the same issue as in any big system - people on high enough positions are isolated from all the crap normal users have to deal with. If you can interrupt th…
Finding a replacement isn't easy, but I've used Wire (wire.com) for a year now and find it good enough feature-wise, and excellent security-wise. It has its quirks and can be a resource hog at times (the desktop app uses Electron IIRC), but it's worth switching from the security disaster that is Skype.
Original submission by author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13225939
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A lot of people use Discord now. I mean, you can use it inside of a browser, what can be easier than that?
Seems to be designed for games only, or did I end up in a targeted landing page?