People kept saying this age verification scheme was a bad idea.

Now look where we are!

Discord now says 70,000 government IDs may have leaked in provider hack

https://www.engadget.com/discord-now-says-70000-government-ids-may-have-leaked-in-provider-hack-225753321.html?src=rss

My country has banned Discord, any good alternatives?

#Discord Kundendienst gehackt, Ausweis- und Führerschein-Scans kopiert

https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/cyberangriffe/discord-kundendienst-gehackt-ausweis-und-fuehrerschein-scans-kopiert-321424.html

Und noch eine Quelle, bei der der Add-Blocker an bleiben kann:

https://www.heise.de/news/Datenleck-bei-Discord-Support-Dienstleister-erfolgreich-attackiert-10712155.html

Tja, es war erwartbar.

Self-Host Weekly (3 October 2025)

#Immich finally goes stable, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Cially - #Discord insights and analytics, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-10-03/

You may (or may not) recall the #Freenode takeover mess. However, thanks to #IRC being an open and widely supported protocol, many projects migrated to #LiberaChat with as little disruption as possible.

Good news is, your walled garden is unlikely to suffer the fate of Freenode — because it already is there, from day one. What are you going to do when your project suddenly gets banned and you lose access to everything — including all the data that you shouldn't have kept there in the first place? Of course, come up with some corporate bullshit of "join us on our illustrious journey to the next walled garden, and don't forget to install another 200 MiB privacy nightmare app not to be excluded from our community".

Question for the #fediverse . Is there a discord alternative that's not owned by any corporate entity?

I know many people who are aware of the importance of #FreedomRespecting software, data, and culture - and the related issues of digital sovereignty and privacy.

Paradoxically, a lot of these people also participate in, or even maintain, communities hosted on #nonfree / #proprietary / #restricted or #centralized platforms like #Telegram, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Signal, #Instagram, #Facebook, #Twitter, #LinkedIn, #Bluesky, #GitHub, and others.

To state the obvious, each community which chooses a proprietary platform - or bridges to it - is also giving another reason for others to be on that platform. It’s reinforcing network effect.

Conversely, if these communities chose to move to free platforms, their members would be forced to move as well. In other words, these communities have the opportunity to push for change on a massive scale.

Sure, you have to reach out to people on proprietary platforms, if that’s where the majority are. But you cannot be stopping there - you must have a strategy to move people away from proprietary platforms to free platforms.

To give the example of #OpenStreetMap -

• I announce events on free platforms sooner
• I remind people on proprietary platforms that they should join the free platforms to get notified earlier
• After each event, we invite people to our #XMPP channel, which is not bridged to any other platform.
• All organizational talk takes place on our XMPP channel, which is not bridged to any other platform.
• I minimize my participation on proprietary platforms, and communities which bridge to them. The bulk of my activity happens on free platforms.
• I have never submitted data to Mapillary or KartaView, because their clients and servers are proprietary. All my contributions go to #WikimediaCommons and #Panoramax.

So to these spineless people who are choosing and effectively promoting proprietary platforms, I ask…

How do you think things are going to change, if everyone keeps choosing what is easiest for them, and keeps choosing, supporting, and promoting proprietary platforms?

What part are you playing in making things better? Or are you just going to go with the flow of the world, even if you know it to be wrong?

They don’t like answering these questions.

Instead, I invite them to find the integrity and courage to answer them.

Or, to find the integrity and courage to make the obvious change and do the obvious right thing.

People hate it when I bring this up. Sorry, but my conscience dictates that I speak up for what is right. Silence is complicity, and it gets us nowhere.

#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

1. Japanese Gardens!
2. Spring is coming! (in the southern hemisphere)
3. Discord keeps the family together

"His private discord post"

My brother in christ if a corporate app or service's literal only hard security feature is that it uses SSL it simply is not private.

Assume all of your Meta, Discord, Telegram etc messages can be read in near realtime by proud boys with badges i. Trump's regime.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassination-sparks

@kenklippenstein

Have you seen what’s going on in #Nepal?

I’ve seen a smattering of articles and this seems like a decent roundup. Absolutely wild rejection and deposing of a corrupt regime from Gen Z, and possibly the first use of #Discord to elect a new PM, which was recognized by the military.

In world political news that went under the radar over the past few days: the government of #Nepal has been overthrown by youths following a governmental move to block social media, and accusations of corruption.

A new PM was elected over #Discord, and has been accepted by the military. They aim to hold elections within 6 months.

I repeat:

THEY ELECTED A NEW GOVERNMENT

OVER

DISCORD.

And no second ammendment was needed to rise up against against tyranny.

https://gizmodo.com/nepal-currently-being-run-via-discord-after-gen-z-uprising-2000658243

please boost

hey discord on my phone keeps having this issue where it'll silently disconnect me then reconnect me like 30 seconds later then it'll play the disconnect noise as it reconnects. i keep talking then don't realize i've been out of the call and when i get back in i don't know or remember where i left off and get really angry

it happens literally all the time. it's maddening. discord is essentially unusable on my phone. i keep getting so fucking angry i feel like breaking my phone. please help me

my app is fully updated. what the fuck is going on

What's this

#Nepali coordinating #revolution on #Discord, almost 10,000 on one conference call

They're calling it the "#GenZ" #protests. It was sparked by a crackdown on #SocialMedia but the base frustration is #corruption, #nepotism, #unemployment, and #inequality. 19 protesters were killed on Monday, I'll spare you a viewing of that video, and Tuesday #Parliament and the #SupremeCourt were set on fire. The prime minister has resigned. The government has fled.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/09/nx-s1-5535887/nepal-protests-gen-z-explained

Just listening to the Destination Linux podcast episode 435, and hearing them talk about their issues and experiences with Matrix... It does not sound good

So question is: what other projects exist out there that are open-source, and could be good alternative to Matrix/Discord? A federated solution would be nice ofc.

"If you disagree with any of the policies, you may terminate your agreement with us at any time by discontinuing use of our services and deleting your Discord account."

Email about changes to Discord's ToS, 2025

In plain terms, you can like it or leave. But at the same time, they'll do anything they can to make it hard to leave. This is what dictatorship looks like.

Hello, all current #Discord users! They're changing their Terms of Service at the end of September, which means you have 30 days to opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate in Section 16 of the new ToS:

https://discord.com/terms#16

All you need to do is send email from the one you used to register for Discord to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com and let them know you would like to opt out. Why?

Because binding arbitration is only good for large corporations, not individuals.

Please boost! #BoostsOkay

Discord is once again, for the 8th or more time this year, updating their privacy policy, and terms of services.

I DELETED my account today.

Goodbye, Discord.