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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458015

If I am required to do this, I am purging my Discord account immediately. I am not giving them face scans.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I would recommend Signal and maybe Tox (protocol, has several clients).

Signal is a nonprofit. They make it a point not to collect your data. Just the phone number. Military folks seem to like them.

Tox is not a centralized entity at all, anarchists seem to like it. Multiple Tox clients exist and use a common protocol and network. Messaging happens via peer-to-peer, lookups make use of servers. For messaging to occur, both communicating parties have to be online, so don't expect much convenience.

[–] Pika 5 points 1 day ago

Oh my God it's been so many years since I've heard of tox I set up a q-tox account years ago, then no one used the platform so I just let it rest. I think I have my identity key is still stored on my developer sync, I forgot that platform existed

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

*sets up mumble server

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (15 children)

I do not have a camera....so get fucked I guess. Ok discord..bye, you are easily replaced as a voice chat for videogames with friends.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They do technically still offer a "manual review", which is what they do now, where you have to take a photo using any kind of camera with your photo ID and email it... which isn't really better, and can be very, very slow in actually regaining access to an account.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Since when do they ask for age? I remember you didn't even need a verified email

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

As someone who looks significantly younger than they are, I'm curious as to how this will work.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You know, revolt exists. Matrix is good but it isn't the same experience as discord. Revolt is a pretty good open source copy of discord.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Matrix's protocol with revolt's UI is what we need

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 1 day ago

And Signal's SMS feature. I'd love to gradually move my contacts over to something else, and being able to convince one at a time to switch their SMS client would make that so much easier.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

if that happens to me and discord wants me to send selfies to my self,Am going to Matrix and maybe use my discord alt to take to my friends who dont wanna use matrix.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do you guys think that maybe we could fool the AI with AI?

I’d like to try to verify an account using a This Person Does Not Exist generated image, but I don’t use Discord at all

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can, a shitty deepfake will trick most verification systems, I've tested it in banks before

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Back to TeamSpeak and Vent then

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[–] Imgonnatrythis 22 points 2 days ago (10 children)

This is what it takes for you to finally leave discord? I would guess most people that have managed to stick around discord this long won't even mind this.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago

This is significantly worse than anything they've done

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

If something like this happens, I'm setting up a Matrix room as something on the side for if people who work on the same project I do want out of this garbage.

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