This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Good.
Discord is overused for help forums and wikis, which makes them extremely difficult to search and dependent upon third party software to be maintained. I hope this will force people away from that behaviour and back to good old fashioned messageboards that have been working just fine since at least the 80s
If you say your documentation is on discord we don't run your software.
Absolute fucking clown shit
After what happened in Nepal last year, this 100% tracks with the dystopian narrative we are currently living. The powers that be saw a small country use it as a tool to affect change. To me, and tell me if I lm jumping to conclusions here, its obvious as to why this policy change is happening at all, to prevent the site from being used in that manner again.
After what happened in Nepal last, this 100% tracks with the dystopian narrative we are currently living.
This…I do believe 1,000% that, when people use any form of applications to create a community that supports each other and brings goodness in generalization they will always shut any apps down, or another company such as Oracle, BlackRock, Vanguard will buy it out and trash the application, housing, property, food, and anything that seems to attract the public attention that makes the world just a little better. I truly believe these evil demonic overlords will do anything to make society live in utter depravity, non unification of anything, no community, isolation, fear, depression, and division. This is what they always want, and anything that brings us together, they will shut it down. I have watched this for years. How new innovating unicorn/startup apps will go about 3 years at most. And then Zuckface (Other crap companies such as meta) will try to somehow purchase an app to just crap on and destroy. Mediocre disgusting apps such as facebook, and instagram that has done more damage in a society than to ever help, will always progress and continue. Because it separates us, divides us, puts us in echo chambers, toxic and does nothing to benefit humanity. Things like discord, that creates a community to support one another, will always get shutdown or purchased by demon possy who will just eventually get the app to become a ghost town. I am curious to what app is next. We had TikTok and Discord on the chopping block. I am curious to what other apps are next for 2026.
Control the conversations in the digital third spaces. Crush ideas, punish those who are a threat to “authority”
Stop a calling this "age.verification" and start calling it what it is, "identity harvesting".
I found this little substack article that lists out alternatives. The timing is is great & I hope it helps people out.
Matrix and XMPP based apps wont cut it for most Discord users. Guilded was taken offline in December. Revolt is now called stoat.chat and is so far the most promising alternative for Discord.
Hear me out. Maybe, if you are a parent, its your duty to keep an eye on your child, and exert some control over the spaces and people they interact with?
Conservatives have been using the "think of the children line" to justify Draconian overeach for years. All while simultaneously doing everything in their power to take away programs that help children.
Absofucking- lutely!
My 12 year old has zero unsupervised access to the internet. Zero. "But they'll suffer sociallly!"
Will they? My son has tons of friends and they play sports and Nerf guns. And, he can read. A whole chapter book, on his own, without prompting.
Suffer socially, ask the "incels" who have recovered if the internet access they had as teens "helped them socially".
Please, pretty please, be the spark that will stop OSS projects from hosting their "support forums" on Discord.
I wish it was only limited to support forums. I've seen a Linux kernel driver where the Issues sections was closed and you should go to Discord instead. No thanks.
It's horrible. We already had that stuff figured out. Wiki pages and forums to make information accessible even after 20 minutes have passed. Fuck that development and everyone that was/is pushing for that.
I am already learning about matrix protocol which is seeming like a good alternative. https://matrix.to/#/#all-topics:matrix.org
I have already spun up an instance for my friends. It was easier than I thought. You can bridge it into Discord an import the history of all channels of your servers, so you won't lose it all too. Worked pretty well.
How can you do this? I just spun up an Element container but am still learning about Matrix as a whole.
I was using discord with notifiarr for a notification platform for my jellyfin server/*arr stack. Shut all that down and setup a self-hosted instance of ntfy today. Works perfect, should have done it sooner.
they don’t arrest child traffickers and rapists.
No no, it’s the child at fault for being at risk around them.
I'm truly surprised that lots of people don't like it. I expected most will just silently obey the new orders of our overlords.
