Technology

I could smell the enshitification tidal wave coming yet I doubt my friends will migrate to anything else.

Slightly Off-Topic:

I never liked Discord. First and foremost, nowadays, I cannot log into it when I am using a VPN. And back when I could, it always felt so laggy and clunky.

I think todays society is not used to performant software. Everyone just buys a new computer/smartphone every year or every 2 years or so, so they probably have compute power to run whatsoever. I run old shit. 13 year old desktops or so, with no dedicated graphics card, old smartphones, etc. I need software to be performant.

My discord account is ELEVEN YEARS OLD !? Why would I ever need to prove that I am not a teen !? I would have had to create my account when I was 6 years old to still be a teen with this account, which is obviously ridiculous.

Each day that pass we get closer from Chinese internet

They're banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it's insane.

Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?

I've been paying for nitro (for some reason). Yeah I'm dumb. But I just cancelled it, so I guess I'm getting smarter

Month after they'll need a semen sample and hat size.

And people will do it.

LOL. Deleted my Discord.

Now Discord users are furious and canceling Nitro. I wonder where they will go if the update gets released.

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

I hope the trick with photo modes in games still works. If not I will be leaving discord despite many good friends and communities I have on it.

“For most adults, age verification won’t be required, as Discord’s age inference model uses account information such as account tenure, device and activity data, and aggregated, high-level patterns across Discord communities. Discord does not use private messages or any message content in this process,”

The inference model probably sucks and will fail yo distinguish a lot of users.

We use Discord in the programming courses I teach, not sure how it's going to go over with the students.

Discord isn’t getting my ID. Not that I am in any servers that would be affected. But concerning that if discord wanted to chill us out without hard banning our community, they could just make us age restricted

Good. Can't wait for discord to go away.

Deleting Discord ASAP.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally

So in other words, if you only use Discord as a messaging app and for small servers between friends, this won't affect you?

I honestly have no idea why Discord started trying to push itself as some normal social media like Facebook, and why people started treating it as such. Discord was a glorified telephone line with gifs and web links. I don't need some manufactured sense of "community" among thousands of people who happen to watch the same YouTuber as me.

I'm trying to figure how to get my friends to use matrix instead of discord