Some countries have passed strict new laws dictating youth access to digital platforms.
  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    The moment this becomes an obligation for each person, no matter what, I’ll just quit Discord. I’m tired of stuff like this.

    If people want to do bad stuff, they will find a way no matter what anyway.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      For a brief moment, I had a a FB/Instagram account for testing purposes. After about a week, Meta started asking to see my face on camera. Needless to say, that experiment hit a brick wall.

      I was just following and liking stuff here and there. Didn’t even post anything, but apparently that was suspicious enough for Meta.

        • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 months ago

          They thought of that. It has to be a video and you have to move your head around as if you’re setting up face ID. Not creepy at all. Then again, this is Meta we’re talking about, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

      • Kualdir@feddit.nl
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        2 months ago

        I’ve never quit using teamspeak but I’d never see it as an alternative for the chatting functions of discord (neither private or server wide). Calling and screensharing on it is superior for sure, chatting is garbage.

        • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 months ago

          Embedded matrix client and Teamspeak client in a webpage? Selfhost it.

          I’m sure it can’t be that hard. I’m planning on rolling out something similar, if it works I’ll like the source code here.

          • Kualdir@feddit.nl
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            2 months ago

            I’m not a technical person, can’t be bothered for that. In the end for tools like this its important non-tech people can also use it

            • scintilla@lemm.ee
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              2 months ago

              This is something that I feel like should be at the top of every single tech related community. Not everyone is a techie and they shouldn’t have to be to exiat in the modern world.

              • Kualdir@feddit.nl
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                2 months ago

                We really need more people working on tech that both has great privacy but also simplicity. Currently you always have to pick between convenience or privacy. Everybody that keeps pushing self hosting doesn’t get that not everybody has the skills or time to set that up.

                I work in IT, I do QA, I write test automation code, I setup CI/CD pipelines but the moment you put me on networking stuff I’m done, gg well played. It’s a whole new skillset so if I as someone who grew up and work in a technical job has a hard time with it don’t even think its going mainstream.

  • Kualdir@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    Reminder that we have a european alternative called Revolt we can always switch to!

    Another alternative is Element for chatting and Teamspeak for Calls/Screenshare!

      • Kualdir@feddit.nl
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        2 months ago

        I just checked and indeed it does! Didn’t know that before, although I do think Revolt is more user friendly to non-tech people so will probably be a better choice for people to migrate to.

        Teamspeak 6 released a month or so ago and has Peer2Peer screenshare, it works great!