Discord is out there tripping itself over, quietly poking TeamSpeak “hey, maybe you could make a comeback to break our VoIP monopoly?”, meanwhile TS sits it out quietly developing at a snail’s pace.

Then we’ve got Stoat, Fluxer, and what’s not currently the trending obscure alternative (think like Guilded was too). They’re all too obscure, and most of time these apps are unsigned & lack notarisation so their code safety is a matter of “trust me” (a wise person doesn’t install random junk on their PC, regardless of it being FOSS or not - one rogue maintainer is enough to bring risk; unless they’ve gone even half as serious as Debian or other highly reputable FOSS). Adding to their obscurity, I doubt anybody is going to materialise new friends into existence by sheer willpower, will they?

Unless something happens that makes the casual Discorders jump off their platform, these hiccups are largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Yes, they’re serious. No, they still won’t make people ditch Discord - at worst they’ll keep obscure platform XYZ for contacting friend group 1, and still use Discord for their daily communities and acquaintances who don’t keep up with any tech news (like privacy leaks) at all.

That’s just some food for thought, I’m not actually going to debate about what I wrote (no time for such things!) Nevertheless, I sincerely hope Discord flops over, and a bunch of better alternatives appears.

Discord is less a messaging platform these days as just like an open source data aggregation service for cyber criminals. It's like they have a huge data leak every 6 months or so.

Oh no!!

...wait nevermind I already deleted my account a long time aggo.

Basically, it’s the worst Discord hack via a third-party service provider since the last Discord hack via a third-party service provider, which occurred almost a year to the day ago – spooky!

LOL wow that thing that everyone said would happen, happened. Again.

Pfahahaha deserved

Deleted my Discord a long time ago since I rarely used it, the only thing that sucks is when trying to do game jams with others it’s the only option, so I haven’t been able to do any…
But still this is better than having Discord.

Obligatory https://stoat.chat/ recommendation

Oh, good. Hadn't seen a Discord data breach article in a short while so was wondering if I'd slipped into a coma. All is normal.

Does anyone have that sweet gif of Ms. Rachel and Mamdani?

Stop using Discord. Migrate to matrix https://joinmatrix.org/

And yet Discord still blocks using anonaddy addresses to sign up.

discord is a shit tier platform filled with pedophiles.

I always hated how invasive double counter was. Besides being a bouncer it's also been used a stalking tool to find out peoples alt accounts and harass them.

Plot twist, it’s a “rogue AI” doing data collection.

Thank god everyone was kept safe by this...

Again?

Double Counter essentially acts as a bouncer bot for Discord servers

If you give a Discord Bot sensitive data, I'm sorry but you're clearly the issue. Bots are software, you (hopefully) wouldn't download a random piece of software from an untrusted souce and give it access to your sensitive data and you should apply the same level of caution when it comes to Discord Bots too.

Now lets start adding in present day photos (for the children only, gotta keep them safe! oh and they must be in swimwear for extra security).