CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@helge Now if only it can quarantine people who spout Nazi bullshit until a mod can review and unblock them (false positives or people discussing the Nazi abuse they receive from others)

@dlakelan @the_moth They also have really granular moderation settings where individual users and groups can get access to different channels. That's just not a function my friends and I use much. But the big discords have entire elaborate moderation and permissions and whatever else structures

@dlakelan @the_moth We're not separated. It's just topic based channels that people chat wherever

@dlakelan @the_moth The channels part with signal is the killer. Anytime we add someone new we have to re add them to 12 different group chats, the chats would constantly reorder themselves in the app, it'd be a mess

@dlakelan @the_moth
I mean don't take me for a complete user story wishlist. But for some random use case vomit

My primary Discord is just about 20 old friends, mix of engineers at some of the largest tech cos in the world all the way to limited technical interest and expertise folks. We're really chatty with text and memes and gifs and pictures, good link previews, custom emojis, a couple dozen topic channels, we spin up new threads frequently, able to DM. I know some folks will watch videos together, but I don't know if they do the video in app or if they all just play it themselves and have an audio channel to talk.

A solid mobile app is a must. Most of us use our phones. "Just works", fast and responsive

@dlakelan @the_moth

Easy enough my non-technical friends are willing to switch to.

there's not a lack of Discord alternatives. There's a lack of GOOD Discord alternatives.

@the_moth

@gwynnion "for the children" has been used for every moral panic ever.

@dan no lie detected

@VictimOfSimony Matrix is terrible, but it is what it is if people are looking for some encrypted discord. Unless your discord community is small enough to just use Signal.

@Viss At the VERY least, put tape over the camera and cancel your cloud subscription until you can get it replaced

@AccordingtoWouter k

@LukefromDC @itsVague @FknHannu
That's ... Really not an alternative when we have to do everything we can to INCREASE our connections to others, and the way people connect is via the internet. You're basically suggesting the digital equivalent of "well I don't like capitalism so I'll just move to my hut in the woods", which fine. Good luck with that. But most of us need jobs in order to eat.

@mttaggart there's still the issue of requiring a cell phone, but it'd still work for many people

Seriously, just have channels on a group chat, and it would be 95% of the way there for a little chat like I do with my friends. But our chat is too busy for one single channel

I'm annoyed that Signal has continued to try and be WhatsApp rather than being Discord.

@FknHannu Nah, this Discord shit is like all of these things. Everyone will angrily shout about going somewhere else, then slink back the next week.

So it's not just that Discord is requiring pictures or IDs to verify age. They're also going to be running AI against everything you do on there to "infer" your age... So make sure you "type old".

Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age. Some users may be asked to use multiple methods if more information is needed to assign an age group.”

Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

I hate Discord with the intensity of a supernova falling into a black hole. I hate its ungainly profusion of tabs and v…

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