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Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
kotaku.com/discords-second-attempt-to-roll-out-age-verification-is-going-badly-2000737908Replying to @inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
Shout out to Fluxer.
Still don’t think its quite ready but its chugging along and its been fun following the progress. I know they have some big updates inbound. Hopefully people actually give it a shot and flip over to Fluxer.
I’d also add that the “Proton” subscrition equivalent - “Plutonium”, is a better value proposition. But I will admit, they still need to clear a few hurdles before even I feel completely comfortable ditching Discord.
But its Open Source and it has a self-hosting option, along with the Quality of Life you expect from Discord in terms of the app layout, screen sharing, etc.
Replying to @Dare_pd@lemmy.world
Shout out to Matrix, which is federated, self hostable, open source, and supports end to end encryption.
Replying to @defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Matrix is a bit of a shit show and also isn’t a discord alternative to begin with.
Matrix is a bit of a shit show
How so?
and also isn’t a discord alternative to begin with
It absolutely is. A “Space” is the equivalent to a Discord “server”. It’s not perfect and polished, but it does the job. I’ve been using it rather than Discord with my gaming group for a year now.
Replying to @EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
I’ve been using Matrix for over a decade now. How is it a shitshow?
Replying to @defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com
The entire concept of it is a shit show. It’s the prime example of anti user design.
It’s a functional system, with the entire concept of user friendly design and non power user being ignored.
It’s made by power users and engineers for power users and engineers. It’s fantastic for what it is.
Replying to @defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I wouldn’t call it a shit show, they were first in E2E encrypted collaborative messaging platforms and get all the hits. Moderation turned out to be incompatible with E2E encryption. People kicked out of channels can still decrypt because keys revocation hasn’t been made.
Matrix server is a resource hog and a mess, and the protocol has never took off to spark alternative implementations.
Encryption doesn’t scale well for big channels.
They got many things right, but got crippled by many things they couldn’t possibly predict.
Replying to @xiii@lemmy.world
I had never used Matrix outside direct messaging so I was unaware of the lack of key revocation.
Replying to @EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
Matrix is a Discord alternative, but not a Discord clone