the social network no one really needs is going to require IDs. Guess I’ll go ahead and delete the app once I stumble across it some day.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
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#992I hope that this causes enough outrage that Discord starts to lose its effective-monopoly for gamers and other folks. The platform has been getting more and more shitty over time and it isn't healthy for one product to have this much power.
I would guess that there needs to be a clear, cheap, easy to use alternative to discord in order for a large numbers of communities to move over. It probably has to be a single clear alternative as well – multiple will exacerbate the decision cost
Gilded used to exist but it's seemingly gone now. The power Discord has is quite insane, to the point where people haven't even seriously tried to compete it seems.
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#993So where we all jumping to?
Discourse, Matrix, Zulip, Rocket.chat - all open source.
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#994We need something vendor agnostic that still allows having a community. Something thats essentially a protocol like bitcoin, email, text, torrents. Probably some of this exists. Then there will be providers offering this a commodity, just like how email and hosting can be rented from any company with simmilar quality (kinda).
There are already: Matrix, Jabber, Mumble, Zulip - all open source.
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#995The child predators are not stalking the adult forums. They're in the "for kids" ones. This "protect the kids" nonsense needs to be called out for what it is - a sham.
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#996The child predators are not stalking the adult forums. They're in the "for kids" ones. This "protect the kids" nonsense needs to be called out for what it is - a sham.
Well maybe misdirected. I remember the first few times my dad caught me looking at hardcore BDSM pornography. I was probably 13 and definitely gay. The first time he cancelled our internet for a month and the second time he started shutting off the breaker to the computer at night. I was hooked though.
I can see how parents are wary, that was probably a big shock for him . Luckily he was able to process his feelings with the belt so didn’t have to go calling his senator.
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#997> On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device. If true, there's little problem with just this from a privacy perspective, but that also makes it useless. Someone is going to make a browser extension to bypass/feed it a fake webcam feed. > Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation. However if…
Replying to myself because someone made pretty much exactly that: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
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#998What realistic open source alternatives to Discord are there? I'm currently considering moving to one of these with my friend group: - Matrix - Stoat, previously revolt ( https://stoat.chat/ ) - IRC + Mumble - Signal
Check out Diode Collab. It’s private communities to join/create, no IDs/personal info needed, fully encrypted, and keeps your data under your control. Not a voice clone, but great if privacy and community joining/creating is the main thing.
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#999What realistic open source alternatives to Discord are there? I'm currently considering moving to one of these with my friend group: - Matrix - Stoat, previously revolt ( https://stoat.chat/ ) - IRC + Mumble - Signal
Diode Collab - not fully open source but network and client are all open source. It has dramatic privacy commitment (stores no data on servers, decentralized user-to-user routing, no PII/phone/emails). Diode team just added STUN/TURN to the network last month and streaming will come soon. https://collab.diode.io
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#1000I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with…
I've been building a decentralized, open source platform at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform before it was cool. I don't think it's cool even now. I mostly got hate on HN every time I posted about it LOL. I think something about "decentralized" gets some people really riled up (maybe it's the association with crypto / blockchain?) but frankly, it's the ONLY solution to extreme centralization. Someone's got to build a…
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