Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

The de facto chat client used by gamers, often at the expense of platform-provided solutions, so I hope mods let this fly. Screen sharing of a game window is something that Discord figured out before anyone else, and it still might be the only one in town that works well for that use case. I’m about to start doing more research to see if any other programs can be subbed in, because this sucks. Wario64 facetiously linked a story about Discord getting hacked and revealing government IDs right underneath this story on Bluesky.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Unfortunately, I’m kind of stuck with it, I can’t disconnect from those communities that have chosen to tie themselves to this platform. If I did I really would be a hermit living in a cave.

    I don’t really know anything like discord though. What would be a good alternative?

    • missingno@fedia.io
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      2 hours ago

      Matrix exists as a federated Discord-like. Though the problem I have with it is that it is a Discord-like, with the same problems of not being indexed by search engines. I don’t think these types of platforms are where most online communities should be. Not to say there’s no use case for a private group chat, but I hate that in a lot of communities Discord is being used for the wrong reasons.

      The alternative for most Discord servers should be forums. Actually, I think Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin can work great as a modern federated forum, one that solves some of the friction of old-school forums by only needing users to have one Fedi account they can use everywhere.