| ▲ | anon_cow1111 6 hours ago |
| It should go without saying but, *CANCEL YOUR NITRO SUBSCRIPTION NOW IF YOU'RE PAYING FOR ONE* (for whatever reason) This was just announced today and a flood of canceled payments within the next 24 hours are the easiest way to send a message. And also tell people on the servers you're on to do the same. It's not like they give you anything of real value for that money. |
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| ▲ | mdavidn 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It boggles my mind that they need a photo ID to prove that my 9-year-old account with a saved credit card belongs to an adult. The linked Steam account is 18 years old. |
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| ▲ | MaxikCZ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | they don't do this for age verification, they do this to build dataset to sell. | |
| ▲ | doctorpangloss 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah because they don’t haha. It boggles the mind because the headline is clickbait. | | |
| ▲ | moffkalast 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Youtube routinely asks for ID on accounts that are already of drinking age, they dgaf they want document scans they can use for profiling and to likely sell to 3rd parties. | | |
| ▲ | Permit an hour ago | parent [-] | | > and to likely sell to 3rd parties. Can you provide literally any evidence that would suggest this is the case? | | |
| ▲ | ted_bunny an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | This sort of thing is common enough that simply establishing means, motive and opportunity are convincing to me. If not yet then soon. You can't hope for a smoking gun every time. | |
| ▲ | DaSHacka 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Give it a couple years for the inevitable data breach to leak all the details |
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| ▲ | mkaic 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Just cancelled mine after reading this comment, I only really cared about the bigger file uploads and the HD screen-sharing anyways and I can live without those. Now that I think of it, I bet I could host a decent instance of some open-source alternative in a public cloud for around the same cost as what I paid for Nitro ($100 a year)... |
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| ▲ | WhyNotHugo 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Discord has been immensely hostile to the public in general since forever, and people love to flock to it and throw money at the company behind it. I don't expect the masses to change their incomprehensible habits just because of this. |
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| ▲ | Choco31415 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's not incomprehensible. Discord makes it so much easier to organize communities than most other platforms. Telegram, Slack, Facebook, Team Speak, Reddit, GroupMe, nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does. | | |
| ▲ | BobaFloutist 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | How many of them let me turn up/down or mute individual participants in a group voice call? | |
| ▲ | ekianjo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "easier" - what really matters is end user freedom, the rest is just decoration | | |
| ▲ | Forgeties79 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Apparently not because they have 200mill users. I also value end user freedom, but I also accept reality. And I guarantee you you have compromised on your freedom/anonymity for convenience online. We all have. And ultimately discord is so turnkey that most people just don’t care |
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| ▲ | swiftcoder 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does Apart from the open voice channels, what Discord features is Slack actually lacking? (and huddles can sub-in for voice channels much of the time) | | |
| ▲ | karaziox 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This doesn't feel like a real question... Slack free tier is basically crappy Discord, limited message history, no voice channels, huddles are also behind the paying tiers. It is basically worse on all aspects unless you start paying | |
| ▲ | chocolatkey 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | A nonprofit I help out just moved from Slack to Discord for a very simple reason: Slack pricing was too expensive, and as the amount of people increased, the price continues to climb. Discord is free | |
| ▲ | thinkling 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Most importantly, Slack limits the amount of message history you get to keep if you’re not paying. And the payment plans are per-user fees which quickly becomes non-viable for non-commercial use. | |
| ▲ | pxx 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | reliable message delivery, lol. slack drops messages silently. it is not fit for purpose. | |
| ▲ | tempestn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The biggest one for me is that Discord will keep all history for free servers, whereas Slack only gives you access to 3 months iirc (and as of a year or two ago, has started permanently deleting older content). | |
| ▲ | jdranczewski 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | For large communities, the very granular role-based permission system of Discord can be put to some good use, I don't think Slack has a trivially equivalent feature. | |
| ▲ | moffkalast 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Dude, Slack deletes everything almost immediately unless you have a paid version which isn't cheap. |
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| ▲ | jimbob45 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Y’all forgot that the only reason we’re on Discord was because MS actively killed Skype. Skype was much better software circa 2012 before MS let vulnerabilities run rampant, degraded the UI, and moved off the remarkably robust P2P calling system. |
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| ▲ | bilekas 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Thank you for reminding me, I've been meaning to cancel for months but it's only 2.50EUR and having to sign into my apple account was such an effort I never got around to it. |
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| ▲ | pipo234 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not a subscriber, but I understand your call for retribution. I suppose the silver lining is that they are putting the responsibility for age verification adults. Which imo is better than requiring everyone; kids get a free pass to the kids stuff... |
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| ▲ | Brybry an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Unless they're changing things with some sort of automated classification, then it's users who designate which servers and channels have adult content. In my experience, you run the risk of getting your server shut down in small servers if someone reports it. Or risk losing your community server status in larger public servers until you come back into compliance. Also in my experience what teenagers are going to do when they hit an age gate is use a fake picture/video. Sometimes they'll get banned for that and then they'll make a new account and do it again. | |
| ▲ | hahn-kev 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah I agree. I actually see most of the stuff in the teens mode as a feature | | |
| ▲ | anon_cow1111 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'll reply for both you and GPP, I don't know if this will personally affect any servers I use since they're not obviously adult, but I assume the slope will be slippery and if they're doing a faceID system now it will only get worse. Article says "analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device" ...are they really going to implement a facial recognition algo in the browser, or is this a "download our app or fuck off" situation? I'm guessing the latter. | | |
| ▲ | johnnyanmac 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I pay for nitro as of now (not for much longer). If absolutely nothing else, I'm not going to give them monthly payments (which generally required a CC. Aka "I'm an adult") and still not be trusted to be an adult. And that's the thing, these policies are always loose and will be abused. - M rated game? Okay, it's adult only now. Sure. - Emulators? Well they can play adult stuff. Now they just happen to add friction on something that is convenient for billionaire studios. - LGBT content? Well you're talking about sexuality. Of course you need to be an adult. Here let's take face scans and totally not be a sitting duck for any malicious parties looking to identify traditionally disenfranchised people The escalation is fairly obvious at this point. We've seen it happen in real time. |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why should we send a message? |
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| ▲ | airstrike 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cancelled |
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| ▲ | html5cat 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| cancelled. thanks for suggesting |
