@verge Just another step towards chipping all people living in US, and tracking and monitoring them with Starlink using xAI. Keep capitulating, and this WILL be our future. No doubt.

@verge
“We’re not doing biometric scanning [or] facial recognition. We’re doing facial estimation."

Ok, that actually made me laugh

@verge

Time ti be somewhere else then

@verge how do you do, fellow kids .gif

@sayonaraminasan @verge

15 years ago Discord had a very good thin client set-up that was great for streaming, and great for video-calls, but unfortunately the enshittification has kicked in.

So fat-client and so slow, their website is.

@verge HAHA!

Okay, okay, I will delete it then

I'm getting too old for Discord crap anyways

@Ertain @verge
I think you're conflating the enshittification with the fascism, but in fairness they're closely related.

@ppb1701 @verge

Sounds like I'm really not eager to try discord anymore @sofonofos 🤍

@ppb1701 @verge is there a #FOSS and or ethical alternative anyone can recommend? and why?

@verge 'let's use discord for documentation'. What could possibly go wrong?

@stux @verge huh.. on the up side I hope that kicks folk into trying to find some better places to replace it!

@wiredfire @verge Same indeed I have a feeling a lot of ppl refuse this

@verge Agh! Couldn't they have waited until Matrix and/or Delta Chat was ready as a Good replacement?

@verge Glad I never became dependent on this shitty IRC knockoff

@feorag

Even if they're now spoiled rotten by llms, search engines still work well enough to look for them. If your community is to move, it has to be a collective decision and they should do some work too.

@woozle @netskaven @verge

@verge goodbye discord then. I use it a lot but that's a step too far

@verge fuck discord

@verge to be fair, it’s about time that Discord takes this responsibility and does not have all the “servers” request and validate PII as a hobby

@verge
Welp...

Time to drop Nitro, write a sternly worded email and look for a replacement for Discord.

Maybe set up a private Team Speak server or something. Or maybe go back to good old XMPP...

@verge I'm sure there are alternatives out there.