Discord is a wildly popular voice and text messaging platform with >150 million monthly users. Many people use it as their primary messenger. But should they?
Discord is not meant to be a private messenger. And you really shouldn’t use it as one!
The most “sensitive” info ever exchanged is…I guess we refer to friends by their names? Private game server passwords? Someone might mention smoking weed in their legal state? I’ve sent some Redfin links, too.
Should we really be using a completely separate program for text chat? We sacrificed latency switching from teamspeak to discord FOR the chat functions…
You may want to check out Element. It’s privacy-respecting free and open source software. It’s also part of the fediverse. If you check your Lemmy account settings you can see a field called “Matrix”. Element also uses Matrix so you can even link it to your Lemmy account if you want to. I’ve been using it for quite some time now and it’s very usable! Discord’s voice channels are called “video rooms” in Element and are still in beta, though. You can easily activate and use them but they aren’t quite there yet. Still, worth a shot. Everything is E2EE encrypted
While I am very much into that idea, it’s a hard sell migrate multiple servers worth of people whose needs are perfectly met by discord despite all of its misgivings.
I call myself a beta software masochist as I’m often an early adopter but honestly…discord fits the bill even for me. I have no expectations of privacy when I use any messaging app so I just don’t discuss anything sensitive online. And Discord allowed my tech-illiterate friends to join in on the conversations which I love.
As much as I hate to say it, I’ll have to sit this one out until mass adoption happens because it affects my ability to stay in touch with my IRL friends who have moved around the country
That’s totally understandable, I’m currently juggling the two. I also want to add that Signal is actually trustworthy. The FBI subpoenaed all info of a given user and they basically just gave the phone number and last login date, that’s it. Mental Outlaw made a video about it
Meh. I’m gonna continue using it for DMs.
The most “sensitive” info ever exchanged is…I guess we refer to friends by their names? Private game server passwords? Someone might mention smoking weed in their legal state? I’ve sent some Redfin links, too.
Should we really be using a completely separate program for text chat? We sacrificed latency switching from teamspeak to discord FOR the chat functions…
You may want to check out Element. It’s privacy-respecting free and open source software. It’s also part of the fediverse. If you check your Lemmy account settings you can see a field called “Matrix”. Element also uses Matrix so you can even link it to your Lemmy account if you want to. I’ve been using it for quite some time now and it’s very usable! Discord’s voice channels are called “video rooms” in Element and are still in beta, though. You can easily activate and use them but they aren’t quite there yet. Still, worth a shot. Everything is E2EE encrypted
While I am very much into that idea, it’s a hard sell migrate multiple servers worth of people whose needs are perfectly met by discord despite all of its misgivings.
I call myself a beta software masochist as I’m often an early adopter but honestly…discord fits the bill even for me. I have no expectations of privacy when I use any messaging app so I just don’t discuss anything sensitive online. And Discord allowed my tech-illiterate friends to join in on the conversations which I love.
As much as I hate to say it, I’ll have to sit this one out until mass adoption happens because it affects my ability to stay in touch with my IRL friends who have moved around the country
That’s totally understandable, I’m currently juggling the two. I also want to add that Signal is actually trustworthy. The FBI subpoenaed all info of a given user and they basically just gave the phone number and last login date, that’s it. Mental Outlaw made a video about it