My war against Discord

[FlufflesAway]

Part of my larger crusade against non-free software. Discord was valued at $15 billion. It's the users that give it any value, but get nothing but surveillance and control in return. Some reasons not to use Discord: https://stallman.org/discord.html .

My personal gripes about Discord:
-- They require linking a google account to it (I don't use google, another surveillance company).
-- They ask for mobile pone numbers to 'verify' users.
-- They train their AIs on users' chats.
-- There's no privacy on Discord.
-- The degree of surveillance is not knowable because their programs are not open source.

I propose SimpleX chat (https://simplex.chat/) as a discord alternative. No, it's not a one-to-one replacement, but it's a good technical response to wanting a distributed, secure instant chat program with voice/video capabilities and other things modern users demand. It's free libre open source software, self-hostable, and is available on the modern hosts (Windows, Apple, Linux, Android).

This thread is to share SimpleX chat groups and promote its use.

I've made a group. It's focused more on trying to recover, but suicide talk is fine.

SimpleX Chat - Contact

simplex.chat

Break free from surveillance and promote user-created user-modifiable programs!

Thanks for coming to my schizo ted-talk.

 

[AvaCutey]

Matrix based severs are also a good alternative

 

[sos]

so instead of a discord rant, this is mainly an advertisement for simplex

where's the "#ad"??????

how much are you getting paid

 

[FlufflesAway]

so instead of a discord rant, this is mainly an advertisement for simplex

where's the "#ad"??????

how much are you getting paid

No. If you want to continue using Discord you're free to do that. I'm just a floss (free libre open source software) advocate.

I guess all those other posts about discord are ads for discord?

so instead of a discord rant, this is mainly an advertisement for simplex

where's the "#ad"??????

how much are you getting paid

No. You're free to use discord. I know some people don't give a shit or thought about the software they use on their computers. This is one of my obsessions.

FLOSS and FOSS - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

www.gnu.org

Just being autistic about my hobbies.

Matrix based severs are also a good alternative

I can't promote it. I think it's impressive, but it's technical design is too flawed and antagonistic to the ideal of privacy. It's designed to replicate chat databases too easily. It's origins with mossad have me jumpy too.

I prefer simplex because it's more similar to IRC.

 

[N7_Alliance_Marine]

Discord can eat shit and die for all I fucking care.

 

[yabujin]

Discord can eat shit and die for all I fucking care.

 

[Agon321]

Yes, Discord is terrible for privacy.
But we live in a world where privacy and anonymity are becoming increasingly rare.
Corporations and governments are very keen to take advantage of our inaction and lack of knowledge.

The internet is becoming a shittier place in this regard, to be honest.

 

[Dusk till dawn]

So in summary your reason is opsec purposes?

 

[NumbItAll]

Good points but sadly I'm stuck using Discord since that's what everyone else uses.

 

[Downdraft]

Matrix based severs are also a good alternative

Be careful of decentralized protocols. Often the people who use them are the idiots who get banned from mainstream media.

I moderate a room in which we had to ban politics after people kept praising Stalin and called for genocide of groups. It's literally a 50% chance an user would lol.

Anonimity and lack of moderation (you can have your own servers) creates breeding grounds for horrible people. Privacy communities are so unwell on the head.