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The correct response is still "Fuck you Discord, too little too late".
They're only pulling back from March to later this year, and adding credit card options instead of face scans isn't addressing the issue of "fuck you, you don't need to know who I am".
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@Em0nM4stodon @alice Honestly. They can stick a cactus wherever the sun doesnt shine.
And really. Even if they are delaying this shit everyone should seek home elsewhere
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Ah, the "Activate now" - "Remind me later" non-consent move. Classic!
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange @alice@lgbtqia.space Discords response to the pushback is basically
"We hear you! We know you aren鈥檛 happy with our torment nexus implementation, but don鈥檛 worry, we鈥檝e already got so much personal data on most of you that we don鈥檛 need to put you through the nexus. And for the remaining 10%, we鈥檒l still put you in the torment nexus, but not until later in the year, and as a bonus, you鈥檒l be able to pick which colour you want your nexus to be!
@alice @Em0nM4stodon I use it for HTB since it's the only forum they support. Eh well. Hopefully they move to Matrix. Getting rid of em.
@alice @Em0nM4stodon do y'all know of any discord alternatives?
@alice @Em0nM4stodon It's not even just "you don't need to know who I am." For me, it's "I don't respond well to extortion where the option with the least friction involves handing you something I either can't change without re-issuing documents and possibly physically moving in the case of IDs, or something I need to get COSMETIC SURGERY to change in the case of facial recognition data" especially when they already have a history of shitting the bed on security and lying to our faces about retention.
bUt YoU cAN jUSt uSe YouR CrEdIt CarD!
A) Not all of us have a fucking credit card
B) If y'all fuck up with my credit card data, I'm potentially even more fucked than if you fuck up with my ID.
@alice @Em0nM4stodon I mean it's good if they delay whatever they plan, because that gives people more time to establish alternatives.
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It's still a great example of public pressure changing private plans. It's also nice for those that need time to migrate.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space
Discord pulled off it's mask, partnered with fascists, and are trying to put the mask back on. When a company tells you who it is, you believe them. Discord is hardly the only chatting platform. I can promise you, that if enough people leave, friends will follow. If they don't because having a second option for instant messaging is more trouble than respecting your choice not to be on a platform that treats your confidential conversations and very existence like products to be sold, then maybe those friendships aren't worth keeping.
Fuck Discord. And frankly fuck every proprietary social platform. I don't know if decentralized and open source social platforms are the future, but it's the future that we should fight for.
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I mean even the news is like "well we were gonna be openly fasc about 50% of our users but we decided to only do 10% for now but the rest we're just doing more secret-like, but still fasc!" so yeah, still garbage
@alice @Em0nM4stodon I'm with you, Alice.
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Heh, just today got the email confirming full deletion of my Discord account.
@alice @Em0nM4stodon Please, y'all, do NOT let Lucy yank that football away from you. Discord didn't find its heart overnight, it found a PR person who was available to send a few emails. They will absolutely try to do this again.
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