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Bora M. Alper@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

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Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

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Bora M. Alper@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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The social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.
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    Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.

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      Mastodon isn’t really a replacement for discord though.

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        True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.

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          good luck trying to get family and friends on that lol

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            My mother and sister is on my homeserver.

            Also my SO.

            And my every friend.

            And we use Jitsi for calls during gaming or whatnot.

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              jitsi, interesting…

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            Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me

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              yeah, I get it. I told people one year for my bday to download the app for me to get most of my circle on it. most did haha

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            All it took for me is discord going down for a couple hours a couple of weeks ago. Now about half my friends went to it. All it will take is a small push or down time and they will need their fix somehow lol.

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          SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. IT DO! Discord is mostly used for gaming.

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            I do believe it does have a desktop client.

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              It is not there yet IMHO hard to advise it as singal replacement for now

              I think this time next year tho…

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              It DO! Which one am I mixing it up with then? Briar?

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                Possibly. Briar is mobile only as far as i know

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