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      Given their reputation, you should question if it’s actually due to CP, or some other kind of possible political crackdown. I wouldn’t assume either way.

      Usually when it looks like these people are doing their jobs for once, it turns out to be something in line with their previous shit.

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    i hate discord so much my first discord account got permabanned because the owner of a server i was in went nuts and doxxed 8 year olds and my second account i got locked out for a year because they thought i was a bot and i couldnt use my phone number to verify because it was already in use on my first account then when i finally got in it had a 6 month ban because a server i was in got raided by racists that said slurs

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    I’m legitimately paranoid about this scenario, especially since I’m in a couple of ERP servers, and I was friends with ReploidRevo… yes THAT ReploidRevo, and never knew about what he did until after his downfall went viral. (Shocked the Hell out of me because he seemed so normal and on the up and up)

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      This was my first thought.

      Obviously did some shit then trying to gain sympathy like omg I was banned for being nice.

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    Never understood why anyone would want to pay 100$ a year for discord, the paid version doesnt give you that much imo

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        I agree with you in principle for supporting developers directly through something like OpenCollective…

        … but ask Mozilla how much their Firefox devs get for each financial donation.

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          The company is the heart of the software and it would not exist without the company most likely. True the execs get probably a larger share of any payments but it’s just the way the world works. It’s a piece of software produced by the company, not the developers.

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            Yes that is the sad reality of it, but I don’t think it justifies sending money to the company in the first place. They’re backed by VC and are already predisposed to screw you financially in the longrun. Why accelerate this with donations

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      Personally, Discord has facilitated a long distance relationship with my now wife, and nearly ten years of weekly TTRPG games. I don’t mind the cost because they cannot provide that service for free forever, and I think it’s worth it for what I get out of it. The other benefits they add for paying are almost just bonuses to me after that.

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          It cannot be overstated how much of a boon Discord’s lack of friction is for connecting with people and forming communities. It is mind-flatteningly easy to get onto Discord and into a community, and while the content of those communities is woefully unindexed deep web, forever sequestered, the external discoverability of the communities themselves is exceptional.

          You will not ever reach the same people with the same ease of use as Discord if you use a hosted alternative.

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      Which is a good monetation system. Premium users barely get anything but still enough to pay, while free users can do pretty much everything too.

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      I pay $30 a year for Nitro Basic. It’s only $2.50 a month and worth it to me with how much I use it.

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      I spam 500mb uploads… it kinda makes sense to me

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      personally the $3 a month nitro is worth it for me, considering how much I use it. I know Lemmy hates anything capitalist but a coffee a month isnt that much

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    I have a Discord but I hear a lot about how easily you can get banned, largely on the whims of the people running a single server, so I’ve always been a bit reluctant to use it.

    Also, I find it genuinely disturbing how much information all these companies have about you and your stuff.

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    This is one of the bigger reasons I don’t want to use social media controlled by a corporation, it means they can choose to cut me off from people at their discretion, which will probably be based on what is convenient and easy for them.

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    Lost yearly Nitro and all my friends

    That’s sadder than he seems to understand it is.

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      I know “lol anon has no friends” is le epic funny meme but by friends, they obviously meant their contacts.

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        I have a lot of people, I’d consider friends, that I only communicate with through discord. If I lost my account, I’d likely never hear from them again. Kinda get it.

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    Discord usually just uses some bullshit allegations when they feel like kicking accounts down

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    On this topic: I currently have installed on my phone and computer: slack, zoom, MSTeams, element, discord, Facebook messenger and signal to communicate in various projects and friends. What is this madness?!

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      I remember what a game changer Trillian was 20 years ago. Having AIM, MSN, and ICQ all in one app was so nice. I have yet to find anything modern like that. I just checked and Trillian still exists but it appears to just be its own stand alone chat app now.

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    Same happened to me but with animal cruelty content or something. I tried to get the account back but turns out it was a “ban wave” so a lot of other people who got banned but were innocent were doing the same so discords services got overwhelmed by the appeals. Maybe they should have realized after that that this kinda banning is a horrible approach.

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    This is why people should be worried of using these massive services, luckily it was ‘only’ Discord (if this was your primary way to interact with friends, this can be a huge deal).

    But imagine if it was your email account!

    Getting a reputable provider, self hosting or using a decentralized option is paramount for your own sanity.

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      This made me thinking about Valve potentially banning my 19-years-old Steam account due to some error or a mistake 💀 I heard bad things about their customer support.

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      There was that man who was all in on Google.

      He had a telemedicine appointment for his son who had a problem with his penis. Dr asked him to send a close-up photo so he could diagnose the skin condition

      So the guy takes the photo with his pixel phone and sends it

      The phone automatically backs up the photo

      Google’s AI says it’s child porn, his account is deleted and police are contacted

      Police look into it and say “not porn, totally fine” but have to go to his house to tell him the was no problem because his phone was Google, his internet was Google fibre, his email was Gmail and his photo album was on Google and all that was irrevocably deleted

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      Currently having problems with GMail I lost my old phone (2fA) and no device was logged in so i could not access steam and like everything that requires that old mail

      And my phone provider or postal service is stupid because i could not get a replacement sim after multiple tries which normally works

      Googles account recovery policy is basically:

      • 2fA
      • recovery email
      • create a new account x.x

      I think the recovery mail option only gets unlocked after 6? months inactivity because ~3 months ago i did not have the option

      Now after requesting a recovery i still have to wait a full month before they maybe send me a password reset to my moms mail

      But steam support was nice. Managed to get the account by providing a product key i used a few months ago and was lucky enough not to have thrown the physical card away

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        Currently having problems with GMail I lost my old phone (2fA)

        Yea this is exactly why I don’t use 2FA

        If the password is like 64 characters randomly generated by Keepass, the 2FA doesn’t matter.

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          Nah, password authentication or anything that transmits the full shared, secret is beyond primitive. Passkeys, client certificates, OTP never transmit the secret key. With passkeys & client certificates, the server never has the secret key, so it can’t expose it.

          Problems due to phone loss indicate bad practices. Any decent password manager or vault service can manage cryptographic credentials of any kind.

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          You can still accidentally leak your password via phishing or malware. 2FA is fine if you don’t tie it to a phone number, simplest way: install any authenticator app for TOTP tokens. Scan the QR code on multiple devices like phone + tablet, or old phone, for redundancy. Or save the secret key.

          Google and most critical services also give you a list of 10 single use emergency codes that you should print or save in Keepass - lost the phone? Nbd just use one of the codes and reset 2FA.

          I also never thought my non shared password would be public but one day I suddenly got prompted on the authenticator if I wanted to login; still no idea how or why but at least no one could get in and immediately rotated out the password.

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          This is what I do as well. A few services force 2fa though and also have 0 good options (let me use my flipper as a u2f through not chrome, ungoogled-chromium works, but damn), and for those I’m forced to use text.

          While I’m here, anyone have a good chrome based browser that is private and can use serial ports for flashing meshtastic devices and u2f? Need android mainly because I have ungoogled-chromium on linux, but will take recs for linux too if there’s a better one.

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    And I’m not looking forwards to the effort it is going to take to get my friends to migrate away from discord. It was hard enough to get them on discord in the first place.