PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.

The “F” in FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.

@element https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309

#discord #matrix #element #police #fascism #FOSS

Nous apprenions hier que #Discord va nécessiter la vérification d'âge pour débloquer un accès illimité aux salons et contenus considérés par la plateforme comme étant pour adultes.

L'arrivée de ces restrictions souligne l'emmerdification de la plateforme de discussion.

Heureusement, des alternatives existent ! À Framasoft, nous proposons gratuitement https://framateam.org (alternative à Discord / #Slack) !
Pas de vérification d'âge et pas de limites pour l'outil de recherche des messages ! 😉

»ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says:
Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.«

Discord wants to collect the data from you for "security" in order to evaluate you via ID. Now this, this shows how insecure data hunger is, especially in the age of BigTech.

🤷 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

#discord #ai #hacking #discordhack #leaks #itsecurity #photos #aiphoto #cyberattack

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960

Good reads:

― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.

Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.

#Discord

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

“This is how Discord dies”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids/

#Discord #AgeVerification #IDverification #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #security #technology #gaming #messaging #socialmedia

Some of my old comics have aged well!
#discord

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/115022420121912435

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960

Good reads:

― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.

Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.

#Discord

Some of my old comics have aged well!
#discord

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/115022420121912435

The whole #Discord thing is scary. But it is also disappointing that the open source community never seriously mobilized to create a suitable replacement.

I mean, #Matrix is there, but...

Ditch Discord! In early March, Discord will begin age verification for all users world-wide. This is a violation of your freedom and privacy!

Consider one of the following alternatives:
www.stoatchat
www.matrix.org
www.signal.org
www.rocket chat

https://beyond40.miraheze.org/wiki/Ditch_Discord!

#Privacy #Discord #FreeSoftware #Tech

I like how people are recommending a bunch of FLOSS messengers now, its an opportunity to check out underrated projects like I just a few minutes ago learned about the FLOSS project Quiet (https://tryquiet.org) from a discord community trying to relocate.

The website says its all E2EE P2P with tor built in, channels like slack/discord, no email or phone number required. Unfortunately no quantum resistant encryption on the roadmap so I still would recommend SimpleX for general purpose instant messaging but Tor-by-default and P2P are genuine advantages over Simplex

If you found this post interesting you might also be interested in these decentralised encrypted messengers with various pros and cons compared to eachother:

Cwtch
https://cwtch.im
http://cwtchim3z2gdsyb27acfc26lup5aqbegjrjsqulzrnkuoalq5h4gmcid.onion/

Briar
https://briarproject.org/

Meshtastic
https://meshtastic.org/

#FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Security #Anonymity #Deniability #Meshtastic #Briar #Cwtch #SimpleX #Quiet #P2P #Tor #Slack #Discord

I'm noticing that #Zulip looks to be kind of #Discord shaped, but all anyone seems to be talking about as a Discord replacement is #Matrix.

Given that Matrix has its own issues, is there a problem (either technical or political) with Zulip that I am not aware of?