Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background
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Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background
I hate Discord with the intensity of a supernova falling into a black hole. I hate its ungainly profusion of tabs and v…Edwin Evans-Thirlwell (Rock Paper Shotgun)
irate944
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Scrubbles
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Please remember as people are looking for places to go to be kind. The reason Linux took so long to "take off" is because us linux folks (myself included) were proud of the high bar to entry. Encourage people to be curious, help them learn the ropes, don't bog them down with technical details or the battles that have been taking place on X technology over Y technology. Offer an open easy place for them to come talk.
Once they get the foot in the door for a few months we can show them how awesome Linux is!
humanamerican
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Scrubbles
in reply to humanamerican • • •If we don't warn them about it they'll obviously be unhappy they should knowww!
(In reality they get confused, they leave, and then they keep using the corpo controlled version)
XLE
in reply to Scrubbles • • •To be fair, Linux is in a super tough place right now as it shifts from a windowing system to a completely different one.
And guess which one of those windowing systems is very unfriendly to Discord...
nomad
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Azrael
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Soooo... Revolt?
Or is there a better Discord-Esque alternative in the Fediverse?
I'm talking about Chat and Voice channels here.
Scrubbles
in reply to Azrael • • •Revolt (now Stoat) is an option, personally I don't like it because there is no federation and it's text-only.
I'm using Matrix, with Element, which does have encrypted voice chat if you set it up. I want federation because I don't want my users to be locked into only my server. However, the bar for entry is higher.
ɔiƚoxɘup
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Yeah, it really is. I feel like if I have trouble getting it to work, my friends have no hope.
... I mean, I did get it to work but the struggle was real.
Scrubbles
in reply to ɔiƚoxɘup • • •ɔiƚoxɘup
in reply to Scrubbles • • •I appreciate your efforts and good on you for doing this but I don't have time to do that with hundreds of people.
It's just not ready for production yet.
I actually just went and checked to see if I had any messages and element x was complaining that I didn't have a separate app that I needed to use to get push notifications which one would think element x would do on its own but it does not.
Once I installed it apparently there's some extra shit that I've got to do to make that work too and it's just stuff like that that's just user hostile and not good.
I do like element and I love the idea of it but it's just not compatible with most humans, apparently even myself, though I'd thought I had it all ironed out.
cymor
in reply to Azrael • • •wintrparkgrl
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Powderhorn
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Chris Remington
in reply to Powderhorn • • •dfyx
in reply to Chris Remington • • •Scrubbles
in reply to Powderhorn • • •SteevyT
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Dequei
in reply to Powderhorn • • •Powderhorn
in reply to Dequei • • •tryplot
in reply to Scrubbles • • •ah crap, I play archipelago randomizers, and the communication, and notifications for updates are exclusively through discord.
they're not getting my face or ID, but when we start to refer to the pokemon move water gun as water pew, I may need to stop.
Megaman_EXE
in reply to Scrubbles • • •aeiou
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Randomgal
in reply to aeiou • • •XLE
in reply to Randomgal • • •Randomgal
in reply to XLE • • •I'm not sure 'in runs on unpaid labor's is the flex you think it is.
That's just a cute way of writing 'it runs on exploitation'
XLE
in reply to Randomgal • • •SpikesOtherDog
in reply to aeiou • • •B0rax
in reply to SpikesOtherDog • • •t3rmit3
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