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gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Discord@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

www.techradar.com

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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

www.techradar.com

gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Discord@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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'I cannot trust tech companies with that kind of personal data': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks – and they have a point
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Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March – and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42945350

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    https://fluxer.app/ seems promising. Hoping they get self hosting documentation out soon

    Edit: it’s open source guys… https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer

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      Why would I go from one closed source corporate to another closed source corporate that’s got less features?

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        https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer

        There is the source code. I’ve never heard of fluxer before and it took 2 seconds to find, at the bottom of the page linked in the comment you replied to.

        Way to shit on the hard work of volunteers.

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          Sorry, I just saw that there trying to charge money for an app that’s not even fully released yet and assumed corpo.

          It is corporate though, but also open source.

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        Did you look at the link? It’s open source

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        Probably because open source alternatives have had decades to do better and still haven’t.

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          It’s open source, the guy that responded to me didn’t bother to look at it.

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            Oh nice, never heard of it before. How does it actually compare to Discord?

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              It got an influx of people and is laggy, but when it works… it honestly feels just like discord. I haven’t seen screen sharing working yet but the dev in the discord was saying he was working on an update to alleviate the lag and it would make self-hosting easier, which would also help alleviate lag indirectly

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