I use vesktop, a heavily customisable and privacy friendly Discord app for this exact reason.
I literally want to video chat my friends for D&D and the occasional Minecraft and get one of the most tedious and bloated pieces of software in existence. Why does my calling program have mini games, paid emotes and lag like a truck? I genuinely don’t believe I have a hope in hell getting my friends off it, so that’s my compromise.
Discord being used like a wiki or forum can die though. Who thought a chat log was a good place to have guides and news, and how the hell has that not died long ago?
That’s news to me. I’m not overly cautious with privacy so I’m not expert. My general ethos isn’t to maximise privacy but to minimise advertising, and get as much customisability as possible.
Often that ends up with me using privacy focussed software by chance, and I may have applied that here, but looking at desktop, it blocks discord telemetry and limits system access, which is at least something.
No, you don’t see some things are more important than your own personal convenience.
I’ve dropped people I’ve known for years over this. People I thought were better. But no, they, like you, like everyone else, don’t care about the lives of other people so long as you’re comfortable.
How is somebody using discord “contributing to fascism” to any meaningful degree? At that point you might as well kill yourself since buying food also contributes, since in most places the only options are all shitty companies that are way worse than discord.
You’ll need to provide sources for any of those claims. Ofc we should be skeptical of anything a corporation says, but Discord explicitly said they don’t use messages for age verification: https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-is-building-safer-experiences-for-teens. I’d be hard-pressed to believe that if that weren’t true there would be leaks.
My dnd group plays on discord, they ain’t switching and I’m not gonna just stop one of the few joys I have in life
I use vesktop, a heavily customisable and privacy friendly Discord app for this exact reason.
I literally want to video chat my friends for D&D and the occasional Minecraft and get one of the most tedious and bloated pieces of software in existence. Why does my calling program have mini games, paid emotes and lag like a truck? I genuinely don’t believe I have a hope in hell getting my friends off it, so that’s my compromise.
Discord being used like a wiki or forum can die though. Who thought a chat log was a good place to have guides and news, and how the hell has that not died long ago?
I miss being able to find good guides on forums.
Vesktop is not privacy focused.
That’s news to me. I’m not overly cautious with privacy so I’m not expert. My general ethos isn’t to maximise privacy but to minimise advertising, and get as much customisability as possible.
Often that ends up with me using privacy focussed software by chance, and I may have applied that here, but looking at desktop, it blocks discord telemetry and limits system access, which is at least something.
Yes, but it can’t block AI message scanning. And the developers don’t seem too motivated to work against Discord’s privacy violating bot.
Your D&D group can get fucked. So can you if you use that as an excuse to stay on a platform actively participating in fascism.
I can see why you don’t struggle with the network effect.
No, you don’t see some things are more important than your own personal convenience.
I’ve dropped people I’ve known for years over this. People I thought were better. But no, they, like you, like everyone else, don’t care about the lives of other people so long as you’re comfortable.
How is somebody using discord “contributing to fascism” to any meaningful degree? At that point you might as well kill yourself since buying food also contributes, since in most places the only options are all shitty companies that are way worse than discord.
The AI used for determining your age scans your messages and sends that data to training centres of which the data is used by ICE.
You’ll need to provide sources for any of those claims. Ofc we should be skeptical of anything a corporation says, but Discord explicitly said they don’t use messages for age verification: https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-is-building-safer-experiences-for-teens. I’d be hard-pressed to believe that if that weren’t true there would be leaks.
There were leaks. That’s how I know.
Sucks to be you taking the word of a for profit service. Seems like nothing gets learned.
If there are leaks, I’m sure you can find a source for them and share with the class.