Discord has quietly begun testing Incode as a new age verification provider, replacing its previous vendor for some users. The company says face scans are processed on-device where possible, IDs and selfies are deleted after age confirmation, and Discord only receives an age result, not your identity. But the move still raises important privacy questions around biometric verification, third-party trust, and the growing trend of mandatory age checks online, especially after the massive Persona breach linked to Discord user data back in 2025
They said that the pictures were deleted last time, and we found out later that they weren’t. Why would we trust them a second time when they violated our trust the first time?
Most people love capitalism and the ways it fucks them over.
I wish more FOSS communities would use Matrix, Discord sucks so I barely use it anymore
When Fluxer gets federation, I really think it will be a great drop-in for Discord. It’s very familiar.
Matrix really isn’t a good replacement for Discord. I wish forums were still the thing though, I hate threads in my chat apps.
Fluxer just finally finished their big refactor that brought their code to GitHub for public contribution and they released their revamped selfhosting experience
Still. Not. Federated.
It’s on the roadmap, and it’s a solo dev
Wake us up when its federated and ha proper e2ee.
It’s on the roadmap
Kindof like Helix plugin system, Forgejo federation, CoMaps live traffic, etc. I’d rather use something that works right now and not have to wait like 5 years
Their desktop client is a memory hog too. Takes ages to launch and update
Yeah, for Discord on my PC I use it through Equibop. It works quite well.
On my computer I have to use Equibop because their shitass client doesn’t support ARM Linux
I agree, but all matrix clients have their own issues too, and its not a 1:1 replacement.
Been working on deciding where to move to, not sure if I can get my people to come with but as it stands
Fluxer - E2EE is iffy at the moment from what I’ve seen, federation not yet a thing
Matrix - I don’t know of a client that allows audio screenshares which is important when sites keep removing the watchparty features
MOVIM is entirely text based as far as I can tell
I assume E2EE is end to end encryption?
Curious why you care that much. On discord it’s all on their servers anyways, so it already doesn’t matter.
If you had to you could self host and set up e2ee for the connection if you wanted to.
MOVIM is entirely text based as far as I can tell
What are you talking about? One of its main features is multi-stream video calls, which most other XMPP clients don’t handle
Matrix - I don’t know of a client that allows audio screenshares which is important when sites keep removing the watchparty features
If you use Element web with a chrome-based browser you can share a tab playing a video from the same browser. I use Helium to connect to matrix and my Jellyfin server to stream movies regularly. Within the last few months they’ve added the ability to adjust stream volume as well.
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Bye Discord… Hi Element/Matrix haha
We replaced our site’s (not-very-used) Discord server with Matrix, and even if a few thousand don’t know/didn’t follow, we’re happier to be on a nicer space than Discord :)
Congratulations, that’s great! Since the more people we leave platforms that play with our data, the more people will migrate to platforms that take care of our privacy. Union is strength <3
My community is in the process to migrate to fluxxer, self-hosted.
I know there are groups local to me who organise almost entirely on discord, I cannot understand why they choose to do this, even before everything discord has proven to be a very insecure platform
As much as i hate this, CSAM sharing accounts are a real problem, and they keep making more and more.
I wonder what else could be used to counter this ? Device IMEI auth? Im sure we can come up with better than ID verification, which will ultimately make me leave the platform, not because i have something to hide, but because the precedent it sets is dangerous and WILL lead to leaks and breaches.
How can Discord users be 100% sure that Discord will delete their very private data after being verified? Where is the source code for that so we can verify it?
Oh. Wait. Discord is closed sourced…
