Why not. If we’re stuck with sketchy, lawless apps for chatting we might as well go back to the OG sketchy, lawless chat app.

I’m sure they’re very sowwy and have learned their lesson and your face and ID and personal, private browsing habits will be perfectly secure, and even the AI bot that will “monitor your habits to decide your implicit age” will be very quiet with all your sensitive personal details and not give it to anyone even if they ask very nicely for it.

I’m okay with banning the internet entirely. You need a license and proof that you’re using it for business, and make keyboards illegal.

“Regular” content and spaces are untouched.

They are also rolling out something like an AI that monitors your chatting and browsing habits that can determine your “implicit age” as well, this isn’t exactly shocking, but it’s gross how it’s being promoted as a handy feature.

The entire thing is a state surveillance project and yes, they are working on desensitizing the population to having no privacy or personal lives.

Sure hope our government doesn’t collapse to a fascist oligarchy or authoritarian surveillance state, sure could bite us all in the ass when the armed deathsquads get ahold of both our identifications, faces and our ideology and the names and faces of all our friends and family members.

Or would be a shame if all the people who use discord to communicate with other marginalized people suddenly had all their personal information revealed to friends, family and schools, including what chat channels and servers they visit, what games they play, who their friends are and so on.

Oh well, I’m sure the company and the government will be completely fair and transparent about all of our online identities.

One of many massive security leaks!

Dark Tom needs to rise to kick the internet’s ass and create a new, old internet that has no algorithms or bots.

I guess we would need some way to confirm the users aren’t AI or bad actors so we would need to use kind of face reco- oh, I see. We’re trapped in hell.

I am never going to convince my younger family members to change platform, they literally keep discord on 24/7 with their friends and SO’s and keep lobbies open around the clock to wander in and play games and stream and thrive in the social space.

It’s horrifically un-secure and I hate so much about the whole thing from a safety standpoint.

I will likely kill my main account and delete all my personal data and messages, for whatever good that will do, and just make a dummy account to received messages and say hi to family. Same as I did with facebook and other social media.

There are lots and lots of companies that use discord the same way they use facebook, just a place to promote and gather “feedback” and such. They likely mean they ran the official company server, not that they use discord to chat between teams.

Although I’ve done that before too.

it was useful when it was new and there were no alternatives as easy to use.

Now it feels like commercialized app slop that wishes it was actual social media.

They will have some kind of nebulously described “thing” that will monitor your browsing and chatting habits on discord and use that to decide your “implicit age” and I wish any of that was a joke or rumor.

They won’t just ask for your face and ID, they are also admitting that AI or something is going to be literally watching you at all times to “determine your age.”

Tell me again how we’re protecting kids? Where them Epstein prosecutions at? We save any kids yet? How about now?

I am also leaving discord, I hated it and the people who use it a lot, but used it to connect to family members. I will find other ways.

This is the same exact cycle I went through with social media, which I also left entirely. I stopped browsing a lot of sites I used to, I took most of my personal info off the internet, and ended a lot of subscriptions.

The internet lately is feeling more and more like making end-of-life plans.

I kind of like that in the end of the Seinfeld series the writers just kind of up and admitted that the main characters are all terrible people. A lot of people didn’t get it, and I was confused at first because I was younger, but the more I look back at it, the better that ending gets.

Not pictured:

The countless millions of people with their own, select worries and concerns and political ideologies each getting their own very special news stories fed directly to their phones or PC’s confirming that their misery is indeed the fault of [PEOPLE THEY HATE] and how even the people who are supposed to be smart are gobbling that slop down like piggies.

I can’t imagine people on Lemmy of all places having enthusiasm for socializing and conversations.

You like the novelty of it, but you would sit there alone and imagine having friends and then you would imagine you know how to actually listen to other people instead of just waiting for an opportunity to talk about linux or indie steam games.

Ah I see it’s time for our weekly “You’re miserable because of group-X” rage bait stupid fucking headlines.

I am far more concerned about our adults’ screen time, the people who are supposed to be running our goddamn fucking country are spending all their time scrolling and tweeting for attention and posting rage-bait and getting in trouble for irresponsible internet usage.

At least the kids growing up on the internet right now will have some kind of perspective and understanding how the shit works.

I mean, we still need to do something about algorithmic amplification of our worst feelings and impulses driving waves of insecure people into the arms of grifters and crumbling society broadly, but I want to BAN ADULTS FROM THE INTERNET FIRST.

Let’s spin the ol’ wheel of rage bait distraction for today, is it gonna be “Gender A has it worse than gender B?” how about a little run on the infinite treadmill of “Celebrity says something controversial?” No no, I see we have “Generational blame for our miserable lives but no actual action or communication to address or fix it” on the menu today.

I gave safety instructions passed on to me by a mycologist, he shat on my message for not being detailed and nuanced enough, when people have already died from eating wild mushrooms. It’s not a place to debate fine details if people aren’t knowledgeable and experienced.

I didn’t shit on his message, he (or your alt, whichever is going on here) shit on mine, and proved my last point, which is i’ve done this rodeo before and there’s always some nut obsessed with “getting the details and science perfect from a hobbyist perspective” which just confuses people who might be curious to try but don’t know the details and facts to stay safe.

Pay to buy, pay to play, pay to get upgrades, pay to get the best ending, pay to not play. (You will have to use premium currency to set the game down for more than a day or lose all progress.)

Firing up the new Starcraft shooter, the female voice in your coms says: “Run down this hallway, you’re going to need to prove you know how to crouch and jump over obstacles before you can learn how to switch weapon modes!”

yeah, I am gonna need something really special to get excited about another FPS shooter no matter what the wallpaper looks like.

Nobody is going to learn everything they need to be safe from making mistakes in mushroom collecting on a fucking Lemmy post. So I kept my pointers broad and applicable to a large swath of people and situations. My margin is towards safety.

I sure as shit ain’t going to tell people “No no, you really can tell poison mushrooms apart by taste” like some people here are insisting. This isn’t a place for exploring nuance.