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Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The popularity of this tool is bonkers. Even conferences sometimes "create a discord".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It's easy to use, it's fast, it's cross-platform, it's free, it's capable of streaming E2EE video at high resolution and low latency to dozens to hundreds of people at the same time. That's not something you can say about many competitors.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

and it’ll be going to shit very soon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldnt trust ANY "E2EE" without source code.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

it's fast

[citation needed]

it's free

[citation needed]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, requiring the data of the user is not free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's free...as in it doesn't cost "money" (not that yours has any true value left anyway, sucker) but it does cost your soul and feeedom...

...How do I use that varition of text size???

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Compared to pretty much anything else that's offered to end users? Yeah

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Matrix is the same and no one wants to use it. Why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Matrix has been struggling with the "fast" part of the equation for a long time, and it's more complex, technical, and visually overbearing than Discord.

For just one example, servers. In Discord, a "server" is the second level of hierarchy just below the app itself. Underneath that there are channel groups, then channels. The structure is simple, and a hierarchy is simple.

In Matrix, a server is something that runs an instance, and instances crosscut channels and channel groups. It's no longer necessarily clear which server "hosts" a channel, or how to correctly refer to it when inviting friends, or how mechanisms of censorship might work if someone gets kicked out of an instance, or federation is disrupted, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Its not fast or easy to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Its not surprising, it's easy to use and offers a lot of useful features for free.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

now is the time for the Matrix team to really amp up the spec.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean XMPP, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

either or, doesnt matter 2 me