I previously complained to my local MP about the OSA implementation and their response was
“Online platforms must not collect or store personal data during age verification, and many third-party solutions verify age without accessing sensitive identity information. I support the Information Commissioner’s Office in enforcing these protections and ensuring that data collection is minimised.”
I look forward to using this news as an “I told you so” that they will now doubt ignore.
I’ll get by without using any services that require me to upload my ID. Unfortunately most people got rocks for brains and will happily do so without thought, so it will become more widespread.
Can anyone explain to me why do people use Discord?
I find it incredibly chaotic, there are no user-friendly threads and therefore they are not used. Also there is no good introduction to the different channel templates one may encounter, leaving at least me wondering what is the best way to interact with people.
I hate Salesforce as much as the next guy, but Slack is immensely superior.
I know about the good audio thing, but I saw it seldomly used in the servers I was in before I deleted my account, so I don’t think that’s really the determining factor.
momentum: everyone else is using it, if you want to talk to them, you better start using it as well. this also includes cretain projects replacing traditional forums with discord servers.
features: i haven’t found another chat app that offers text, voice and screen sharing simultaneously without it being either paid or an absolute pita.
no payment or selfhosting needed. no average person wants to deal with self hosting a chat app (even less so when it’s not federated)
And that’s it: There’s simply no competition at the same level of quality. Sure, there’s other chat services but none that also offer effortless voice with good noise rejection, screen sharing, media sharing, all at no extra effort and available for free. (I am aware that the latter is dependent on Discord being relatively early in a lifecycle that will invariably end in massive enshittification.)
Features like threads aren’t super important to the users but being able to just conjure up a highly scalable chat community with built-in streaming support is. And yes, the network effect plays a major role as well.
I’m am member of a server that is currently evaluating jumping ship because the looming IPO promises swift enshittification like with all other social media companies. But we’re also aware that moving to any other service means that new users are less likely to show up – many people already have Discord but few are willing to install a client for something they’ve never heard of like Matrix.
I have several communities I run. one has a large number of active users.
if I wanted to pick up and move the whole community to another platform, everyone would have to come at once.
the people in my servers are also in other communities. they won’t just up and leave discord for one community. and I’m not interested in destroying the place a lot of these people call home unless I can get a majority of people to move all at once.
do you know how impossible that is? in order for discord to truly die (which btw I hope for. heavily), it would actually have to die. like meaning a MASS exodus where everyone is abandoning the platform in droves.
but its the only place certain communities that I use exist. its more complicated than “Discord bad don’t use.” I wish I didn’t have to. but its where literally 95% of all my friends are.
For just having fun with friends nothing else comes close. It’s not the best at every thing it does, but it does them all well enough and in one place, for free.
It really shouldn’t be used in the way big projects try to. There aren’t moderation tools to help with managing huge numbers of people, and like you said the threads and forums features aren’t really user friendly.
I’ve looked for something else that has same audio filtering quality, group voice chats and screen sharing with audio, for free. I didn’t find it.
People spend a lot of time in voice chats in private rooms with their friends. Voice quality and filtering is supremely important to those users. Once you get used to the ease of access of screen sharing, you will miss it if it’s gone.
I think the forum thread functionality and projects moving their support and communities to Discord only happens because it’s a platform where people are already on. Discord doesn’t need to be good at those things. Primarily people use Discord to voice chat in private rooms and game while talking. I have access to rooms with friends and acquaintances, where there are people in voice chat, doing stuff all hours of the day. I can drop in and see what they are up to and join in, if I so desire. Often they are screen sharing what they are doing for one reason or another.
A competitor has to do what Discord does and better to get it’s users. It also has to be free.
Ah nono, TS is also server based, i just meant in terms of physics its always going to have the lowest latency if the data doesnt need to take a detour through a server.
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I previously complained to my local MP about the OSA implementation and their response was
“Online platforms must not collect or store personal data during age verification, and many third-party solutions verify age without accessing sensitive identity information. I support the Information Commissioner’s Office in enforcing these protections and ensuring that data collection is minimised.”
I look forward to using this news as an “I told you so” that they will now doubt ignore.
I’m curious how they manage to confirm age without PII.
AI BS that can be fooled by Death Stranding.
Hmm, how unsurprising because that is prime malicious attacker bait right there…
Holy shit how long was that? A month? Max? Hopefully this serves as an example of how fucking stupid this is.
I’ll get by without using any services that require me to upload my ID. Unfortunately most people got rocks for brains and will happily do so without thought, so it will become more widespread.
Hey, at least the children aren’t seeing any titties or cocks!
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Uk Goverment this is fine 🔥
So who and when do those users get to sue for negligence?
Oh nyooo but you can’t sue us uwu;; We said so in the new terms of service we forced you to agree to when you decided to keep using our gawbage pwoduct!!! 👉👈
Gods, I hate discord so much.
I heard that 5.5 million Discord users were hacked. I’m glad I wasn’t one of them (for I never used Discord).
Can anyone explain to me why do people use Discord?
I find it incredibly chaotic, there are no user-friendly threads and therefore they are not used. Also there is no good introduction to the different channel templates one may encounter, leaving at least me wondering what is the best way to interact with people.
I hate Salesforce as much as the next guy, but Slack is immensely superior.
I know about the good audio thing, but I saw it seldomly used in the servers I was in before I deleted my account, so I don’t think that’s really the determining factor.
And that’s it: There’s simply no competition at the same level of quality. Sure, there’s other chat services but none that also offer effortless voice with good noise rejection, screen sharing, media sharing, all at no extra effort and available for free. (I am aware that the latter is dependent on Discord being relatively early in a lifecycle that will invariably end in massive enshittification.)
Features like threads aren’t super important to the users but being able to just conjure up a highly scalable chat community with built-in streaming support is. And yes, the network effect plays a major role as well.
I’m am member of a server that is currently evaluating jumping ship because the looming IPO promises swift enshittification like with all other social media companies. But we’re also aware that moving to any other service means that new users are less likely to show up – many people already have Discord but few are willing to install a client for something they’ve never heard of like Matrix.
mIRC is still great to keep out pedestrians.
I have several communities I run. one has a large number of active users.
if I wanted to pick up and move the whole community to another platform, everyone would have to come at once.
the people in my servers are also in other communities. they won’t just up and leave discord for one community. and I’m not interested in destroying the place a lot of these people call home unless I can get a majority of people to move all at once.
do you know how impossible that is? in order for discord to truly die (which btw I hope for. heavily), it would actually have to die. like meaning a MASS exodus where everyone is abandoning the platform in droves.
but its the only place certain communities that I use exist. its more complicated than “Discord bad don’t use.” I wish I didn’t have to. but its where literally 95% of all my friends are.
Discord to your “home”:
meaning their home server that they get news, updates, etc from.
I didn’t ask why are you not moving away. I have no interest in being there as I have no interest in you coming out of there.
My question is: why did you get there in the first place.
Others answered my question to my satisfaction.
damn. what an unnecessary hostile response lol. I hope the hole you crawled out of will take you back, dearie 💕
How is my response in any way hostile or even confrontational?
it reads to me as though you’re saying “I didn’t ask and I don’t need your answer anyway. go away.”
if that wasn’t how you meant it, I apologize. but it sounded hostile when I read it.
Screensharing mostly, signal has it but it’s only desktop at 5 fps and rev- I mean stoat is still working on it
For just having fun with friends nothing else comes close. It’s not the best at every thing it does, but it does them all well enough and in one place, for free.
It really shouldn’t be used in the way big projects try to. There aren’t moderation tools to help with managing huge numbers of people, and like you said the threads and forums features aren’t really user friendly.
I’ve looked for something else that has same audio filtering quality, group voice chats and screen sharing with audio, for free. I didn’t find it.
People spend a lot of time in voice chats in private rooms with their friends. Voice quality and filtering is supremely important to those users. Once you get used to the ease of access of screen sharing, you will miss it if it’s gone.
I think the forum thread functionality and projects moving their support and communities to Discord only happens because it’s a platform where people are already on. Discord doesn’t need to be good at those things. Primarily people use Discord to voice chat in private rooms and game while talking. I have access to rooms with friends and acquaintances, where there are people in voice chat, doing stuff all hours of the day. I can drop in and see what they are up to and join in, if I so desire. Often they are screen sharing what they are doing for one reason or another.
A competitor has to do what Discord does and better to get it’s users. It also has to be free.
Because people use it. It’s taken the place of forums, and in some cases even fucking customer support. Ugh.
The audio is not actually good in discord btw. It has insane input lag and compression. Teamspeak is still king in terms of audio.
Mumble was always better than Teamspeak, still kicks ass
The best is always peer to peer but that isnt great for large calls.
Ohhhh, is that the distinction. I admit I rarely if ever used TS myself.
Ah nono, TS is also server based, i just meant in terms of physics its always going to have the lowest latency if the data doesnt need to take a detour through a server.
If you’re still on Discord, you’re a sucker and a class traitor.
Class traitor? Seriously? Come on man.