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Discord walks back age verification fears for most users (www.techbuzz.ai)
submitted 12 hours ago by ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Too late assholes... I'm already deleting most of the posts I made on my discord and I will be migrating elsewhere soon.

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[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Piggybacking off this:

XMPP and Deltachat are two excellent decentralized, self-hostable, federated, encrypted communication platforms. Deltachat is limited more to text (though it can send videos or audio files that can be played in the app like snapchat), but with XMPP, we could use the Movim Client.

Movim can do group video calls, screen sharing, differing permissions in groups, and even user blogs! And I believe the devs are working on adding discord-like channels with multiple groups under a single community. It's currently our best option to shift to, and due to being FLOSS, will only ever improve (we'll never need to worry about investment capital enshittification), so it's not just kicking the can down the road, it's a long-term, almost permanent solution.

[โ€“] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And I believe the devs are working on adding discord-like channels with multiple groups under a single community.

If you have a link to a discussion or issue where they're tracking this, I'd love to follow it.

They'll also need to figure out how to let rooms have more than 1000 people, which is currently the limit on Movim (and it might be an XMPP limitation). Right now, Matrix seems like the only option for a Discord migration, but I hope that changes soon.

I might move my Discord community to Matrix, but I'd want a full 100% clone of the server's history. Seems like that's almost possible?

Discord scrapers like DiscordChatExporter can dump a whole channel to JSON (although I don't see a lot of scraper options that let you pause/resume/retry an export... looking for suggestions if people have any).

And the Mautrix Discord bridge already makes it look like real users sent bridged messages. I think with a little customization, the Mautrix bridge could be modified to import an enormous JSON file to fully mirror an entire Discord server, instead of just grabbing messages in real time. It's already got the functions there to "send a message as xyz user."

Matrix or not, "take your Discord dump and clone it somewhere federated" would be huge for migrations like this. I really hope someone works on that soon ๐Ÿ™