Discord has announced that it will begin requiring government-issued ID or face scans for use of large parts of its platform, extending beyond its original compliance with UK ID Verification Law and various Online Safety Acts around the world. What we found disturbing was what seems to be Discord’s strange web of connections, including links to the UK Government via partners, links to Peter Thiel and Palantir (and even Epstein) via venture capital-funded identity verification services, and Discord’s prior partner data breaches leading to concerns of the application’s ability to protect its users. This all comes at a time when Discord is rumored to be preparing for an IPO, which would be an awfully good time for Discord to suddenly know a whole lot more about its users – data that could be valuable for marketing or other disagreeable uses. At least as a positive, this has led to a rise of Discord alternatives.
Hopefully revolt. Matrix sucks.
Do you actually mean Matrix or Element, the client? Cause I see a lot of people mixing these things up. Element does indeed suck as a Matrix Client but there’s been a sudden surge of quite nice clients.
Both. I’m no expert but I remember reading that it’s tech sucks. It’s search features and keys stuff are not that good. The element client is just bad. I’ve been using nheko client and it’s still no where near discord.
What surge in nice clients?
didn’t that one rebrand to stoat, and then reveal they’re into slop coding?
Yeah they rebranded to stoat, idk about slop coding tbh.
There’s been talk in one of my main discord servers to move over to it though