Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?
If they did not collect any information, they would not have any information to give when they are served a subpoena.
How else would they store and sync the information?
Well, I have no First Amendment rights, so there’s that.
Discord sucks and nobody should use it.
I say we return to IRC
The only thing that really sucks about it is that knowledge that was openly searchable is now locked away behind logins.
Life has gotten better since I dropped it. Moved a dozen or so people over to Signal and have been running with that ever since.
I do miss the ability to easily stream games, though.
While this is true, Discord has a massive user base, so it’s somewhat a privacy win for the common person
its still the old chicken&egg problem: if you dont have communities you dont have users, and if you dont have users you dont have communities
thats why everyone sticks to discord
Social inertia and an extra helping of users hate having to learn things.
Well, you are on Lemmy aren’t you
And he’s the only one.
Matrix is promising, but I think it still could use a bit more polish. That said, I run a discord community, and soon one of these days I’m going to make a Matrix version of it and encourage users to try it out. Though very few probably will.
What’s a good alternative that allows easy instant message, voice and video calls, and makes it easy to group my friends by game?
I have been using revolt, going to setup my own server once I get better lol, last 3 times have been a cluster fuck to get it working. I got mattermost working the first try but it’s a slack replacement not discord.
Steam group chat? It’s structured in the same way.
Your phone.
Not really no. SMS is nowhere near as versatile as a service like Discord in terms of being able to meet new people or have conversations that don’t overload unrelated but potentially interested people with notifications.
The attorney called Nexon’s demands “improper and overly burdensome”
They will give you up in a heartbeat as long as they don’t have to do the extra work of finding you.
Discord isn’t protecting anyone’s privacy just their bottom dollar
Discord is committed to fulfilling its obligations under the law
I’ve never played a Nexus game, and I’m definitely not going to start now. People who are pirating a game aren’t usually doing it bcz they hate the company, or have a vendetta of any kind. It’s usually a money issue. People are more than happy to pay for games when they have money, and you’re not a shit company.
Of course it’s Nexon.
That’s exactly what I’d say if I wanted to catch the bigger fishes.
