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Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by mrtesthah »

tonfreed wrote: post #9
illusive4080 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly Reddit hasn’t been meaningfully replaced yet. It’s a place filled with of censorship, power hungry mods, arbitrary rules, and groupthink to the extreme. I long for an alternative. Something civil like HN and community like Reddit.

I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.

Lemmy is a federated reddit-like community that anyone can host themselves. Here's one of the top servers:

https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMont...

Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by dannyw »

ipaddr wrote: post #12

Is discord the new Digg? How many people will leave the platform?

Probably not many, I wouldn’t say there’s a super compelling alternative.

Reddit only absorbed Digg because it was more customizable (subreddits) than Digg, didn’t have any real limitations, and catered towards the same “power web user” profile with the OG design (now old Reddit).

Additionally, the co-founders had strong free speech stances, even to the point of /r/jailbait.

What realistic alternative is there to Discord that’s easy to use and not a downgrade?

Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by dannyw »

m4rtink wrote: post #10
tonfreed wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.

A lot of traditional forums are still active. :) Just the hype seeking people left to Discord and Reddit to be able to lament about how these new places are awful and crying about phpBB and vbuletin being dead.

Traditional forums may not have grown as much as social media, but they’re definitely still alive and vibrant.

And honestly, higher quality conversations and community than Reddit and discord.

Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by dyauspitr »

illusive4080 wrote: post #7
BloodyIron wrote: post #4

Discord is so cooked. It's Reddit all over again. And that place is utter trash now. Mods and Admins not even following their own rules, zero accountability.

Sadly Reddit hasn’t been meaningfully replaced yet. It’s a place filled with of censorship, power hungry mods, arbitrary rules, and groupthink to the extreme. I long for an alternative. Something civil like HN and community like Reddit.

Such as it is I can’t think of any other forum even close to Reddit. HN is civil because of solid moderation and “censorship”.

Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by DoctorMckay101 »

This will be Twitter VS Bluesky once more. It does not matter if the power user moves over to another platform or not. It does not matter if the average user moves or not.

Its content creators that move masses. And if those do not move nobody will. I've had Bluesky for about a year now and pretty much abandoned it some months ago because only like 5% of the people I follow post/crosspost to Bluesky.

In Discord's case its mainly project wikis, forums and video game focused servers + their admins that should move. If they remain on Discord everyone will keep on Discord.

I myself am within multiple servers (that are strictly non-pornographic mind you) that due to the main content/game/media they focus in and the social behavior they cultivate, will most likely be rated non-teen safe.

Most shooter games are Rated R/PEGI-18 f.e. and they have tons of big Discord servers.

Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by Citizen_Lame »

dannyw wrote: post #13
ipaddr wrote: post #12

Is discord the new Digg? How many people will leave the platform?

Probably not many, I wouldn’t say there’s a super compelling alternative. Reddit only absorbed Digg because it was more customizable (subreddits) than Digg, didn’t have any real limitations, and catered towards the same “power web user” profile with the OG design (now old Reddit). Additionally, the co-founders had strong free speech stances, even to the point of /r/jailbait. What realistic alternative is there to Dis…

Reddit became popular largely because Digg alienated its user base with a 2010 redesign (Digg v4) that prioritised publisher-driven and sponsored content over organic, community-curated submissions, driving a mass exodus of users to Reddit practically overnight. So let's stick to facts.

Why do people make claims about stuff they clearly know nothing about.

Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by kotaKat »

DoctorMckay101 wrote: post #16

This will be Twitter VS Bluesky once more. It does not matter if the power user moves over to another platform or not. It does not matter if the average user moves or not. Its content creators that move masses. And if those do not move nobody will. I've had Bluesky for about a year now and pretty much abandoned it some months ago because only like 5% of the people I follow post/crosspost to Bluesky. In Discord's case…

Considering Discord is building a "teen council" to groom and shape the future of Discord, I've got some bad feelings as to the floodgates of crap that's going to open up.

Kids are going to be too impressionable to free crap and pandering to advertisers to fall for literally anything Discord will dangle in front of them. They already do it for Orbs and Quests, so...

Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by slackfan »

kotaKat wrote: post #18
DoctorMckay101 wrote: post #16

This will be Twitter VS Bluesky once more. It does not matter if the power user moves over to another platform or not. It does not matter if the average user moves or not. Its content creators that move masses. And if those do not move nobody will. I've had Bluesky for about a year now and pretty much abandoned it some months ago because only like 5% of the people I follow post/crosspost to Bluesky. In Discord's case…

Considering Discord is building a "teen council" to groom and shape the future of Discord, I've got some bad feelings as to the floodgates of crap that's going to open up. Kids are going to be too impressionable to free crap and pandering to advertisers to fall for literally anything Discord will dangle in front of them. They already do it for Orbs and Quests, so...

I know this isn't what you meant, but "groom and shape" is a hell of a phrase to use in this context.

Re: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

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Post by tonfreed »

m4rtink wrote: post #10
tonfreed wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.

A lot of traditional forums are still active. :) Just the hype seeking people left to Discord and Reddit to be able to lament about how these new places are awful and crying about phpBB and vbuletin being dead.

Must have just been the ones I liked that died. Will have to go looking
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