Just think, the next data breach will now include your government issued ID!
Discord is out there tripping itself over, quietly poking TeamSpeak “hey, maybe you could make a comeback to break our VoIP monopoly?”, meanwhile TS sits it out quietly developing at a snail’s pace.
Then we’ve got Stoat, Fluxer, and what’s not currently the trending obscure alternative (think like Guilded was too). They’re all too obscure, and most of time these apps are unsigned & lack notarisation so their code safety is a matter of “trust me” (a wise person doesn’t install random junk on their PC, regardless of it being FOSS or not - one rogue maintainer is enough to bring risk; unless they’ve gone even half as serious as Debian or other highly reputable FOSS). Adding to their obscurity, I doubt anybody is going to materialise new friends into existence by sheer willpower, will they?
Unless something happens that makes the casual Discorders jump off their platform, these hiccups are largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Yes, they’re serious. No, they still won’t make people ditch Discord - at worst they’ll keep obscure platform XYZ for contacting friend group 1, and still use Discord for their daily communities and acquaintances who don’t keep up with any tech news (like privacy leaks) at all.
That’s just some food for thought, I’m not actually going to debate about what I wrote (no time for such things!) Nevertheless, I sincerely hope Discord flops over, and a bunch of better alternatives appears.
Discord is less a messaging platform these days as just like an open source data aggregation service for cyber criminals. It’s like they have a huge data leak every 6 months or so.
Basically, it’s the worst Discord hack via a third-party service provider since the last Discord hack via a third-party service provider, which occurred almost a year to the day ago – spooky!
LOL wow that thing that everyone said would happen, happened. Again.
Oh, good. Hadn’t seen a Discord data breach article in a short while so was wondering if I’d slipped into a coma. All is normal.
I was worried that Discord became secure. I had nothing to worry about it seems.
Does anyone have that sweet gif of Ms. Rachel and Mamdani?
Honestly just save it to your phone, it’s needed on lemmy so much
Here’s a trick, save a comment of the gif, then you can copy the markup of the gif that’s already been uploaded
Set a keyboard shortcut to &rachelmamdani to replace that with the markup, and it’s at your fingertips!
Could even shorten it to &rm!
Oh no!!
…wait nevermind I already deleted my account a long time aggo.
Obligatory https://stoat.chat/ recommendation
Nah, go to Fluxer, it’s better and it’s getting Federation support
Aint no way I’m convincing my friends to switch again, looks cool though
I feel that
Matrix with Sable client.
Pfahahaha deserved
Stop using Discord. Migrate to matrix https://joinmatrix.org/
If only matrix was as usable as discord I’m sure a lot of people would
It is. People just need to use an app that actually cares about good UI like Cinny/Sable. Element is trash.
Sable has every feature I could want and then some
Seconded on Sable.
Stoat chat seems pretty decent open source alternative to Discord, tried it for a while and has similar usability, but same issue, “nobody uses it”, also development has been very slow.
I tried stoat, but I couldn’t create the same community that I had on Discord that I had set up, so I haven’t tried to move everything there. Honestly, if there was a Discord alternative that functioned similar, I would move there tomorrow, but there really isn’t. And there’s no easy way to mirror the content from Discord to the other place so people can see the activity.
I’ve been liking stoat, I only really used discord to communicate with my friends and luckily they were nice enough to humour me with making an account, so now stoats pretty much all I use, even if my friends are still using discord on the side
Yeah stoat looks very promising!
Firstly, it already is. It depends on what client you use.
Secondly, no they wouldn’t. Even when all the work is done for them, nobody moves because nobody cares even when they say they do.
It is more than usuable though, my only issue with it is the lack of communities other than that both apps and servers are pretty reliable imo
It sometimes takes an eternity or two to decrypt my messages, making me really want to agree here.
Happy with Fluxer. :)
I’ll consider it once its been federated. Otherwise its just jumping from one basket to another basket
Deleted my Discord a long time ago since I rarely used it, the only thing that sucks is when trying to do game jams with others it’s the only option, so I haven’t been able to do any…
But still this is better than having Discord.What about Stoat?
idk, I only see discord links when checking game jam community pages, and since I don’t have a need for a chat app I’ve never investigated any alternatives
People still use Discord?
Did nobody learn anything from the last time this happened?
…oh well i can’t get all my friends to-
Your identity just will be stolen.
Discord is too juicy a target, “cybersecurity” doesn’t actually exist, one of their vendors will fuck up.
You’re just fine with that, huh?
Your idiot chucklefuck ‘friends’ are worth that?
Unfortunately when you reach the level of ubiquity that Discord managed, it’s very difficult to convince people to get off of it. Twitter, Reddit still managing to exist is proof that the majority, the vast majority of people just cannot be bothered.
I personally know people that profess to be (and for all intents and purposes are) progressive individuals and they still use the child porn fascism app Twitter, I know people who are still glued to the opinions coming off of the data stealing AI hell-hole Reddit. The average person just can’t be bothered to make the change, they come up with any excuse under the sun to avoid it.
It’s unfortunate but it is the way it is, all you can do is continue to educate people you know, continue to point to alternatives and continue to make that alternative a desirable place to be. Almost everyone has that one vice they just can’t give up, it’s generally hypocritical to attack others for something they can’t give up when we’re all guilty of something else. All we can do is try our best.
So many reddit adjacent communities moved to discord after the Redditpocalypse that I can’t say I’m surprised. I have a discord I don’t actually use. It’s a holdover from when I played D&D with work friends years ago.
Everything seems to have a discord. It’s really popular these days.
Plot twist, it’s a “rogue AI” doing data collection.
this time it’s copilot
discord is a shit tier platform filled with pedophiles.
