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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

And the process of logging in on your phone requires scanning a QR code from your desktop (a technically-minded person will understand this is necessary for E2EE, but to an average user it's just strange).

Pretty sure discord has the same.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Discord has E2EE?

[–] vodka@feddit.org 16 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

QR based sign in

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

It's optional; you can also just use your standard username and password.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Well yes, but it has it as an option.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago

I don't think the QR code has anything to do with encryption, though. They're just trying to make it convenient to sign in.

Meanwhile, Matrix has a lot of extra stuff going on behind the scenes.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, it does? I've always logged in with username and password.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yeah, but you can also sign in by scanning a QR code with a logged in device.

Though technically it's then other way around, you sign in to your desktop by scanning the QR code in the login window with your logged in phone.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

It has QR based sign in. Shit, Steam has QR based sign in so it shouldn't be weird for people at this point.

[–] bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 13 hours ago

So do "Smart TV" apps. Or messenger like Signal. That is really a common thing nowadays.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 13 hours ago

I've seen QR-based login before as an option. (Heck, I was an early adopter of SQRL...or tried to be. Sadly that protocol never went anywhere.) But it's not typically mandatory, and I don't think most casual users (the kinds of people who just reuse the same password everywhere rather than using a password manager) aren't likely to be especially comfortable with it.