A lot of people will start learning very fast about privacy on Discord
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A lot of people will start learning very fast about privacy on Discord.
Or rather, that there is no privacy on Discord.
> Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassination-sparks-6daIf you run any kind of project or community and use Discord, this would be a very good time to reconsider your choice of a platform.
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A lot of people will start learning very fast about privacy on Discord.
Or rather, that there is no privacy on Discord.
> Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassination-sparks-6daIf you run any kind of project or community and use Discord, this would be a very good time to reconsider your choice of a platform.
Just to make this clear because it seems it's not clear to a lot of folks using Discord:
The way Discord uses the term "server" is massively misleading. There is no separate physical or logical infrastructure involved. No separate "instance" of any software.
In Discord, "server" means the same thing as "channel" on Telegram, or "group" on Facebook.
With everything that this implies – like Discord's access to all data shared in these "servers", including "private" ones.
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A lot of people will start learning very fast about privacy on Discord.
Or rather, that there is no privacy on Discord.
> Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassination-sparks-6daIf you run any kind of project or community and use Discord, this would be a very good time to reconsider your choice of a platform.
@rysiek The problem is, there is no open source alternative to discord, right? Discord is extremly powerful as a community building tool, with its text, voice and video channels and complex admin and moderation features, if it wasn't a company exploiting its users. Otherwise it would be great for organizing grassroots movements, online activism and protests, but all open source alternatives, I have seen so far, are no match in terms of features and usability.
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@rysiek The problem is, there is no open source alternative to discord, right? Discord is extremly powerful as a community building tool, with its text, voice and video channels and complex admin and moderation features, if it wasn't a company exploiting its users. Otherwise it would be great for organizing grassroots movements, online activism and protests, but all open source alternatives, I have seen so far, are no match in terms of features and usability.
> The problem is, there is no open source alternative to discord, right?
And there never will be unless we decide enough is enough and instead of agreeing to use shitty, completely insecure and privacy-hostile tools, we make the (perhaps difficult) decision to use and support alternatives – even if sometimes they lack some features.
We can also push Discord and demand they implement e2ee.
There are ways. It's really up to us.
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> The problem is, there is no open source alternative to discord, right?
And there never will be unless we decide enough is enough and instead of agreeing to use shitty, completely insecure and privacy-hostile tools, we make the (perhaps difficult) decision to use and support alternatives – even if sometimes they lack some features.
We can also push Discord and demand they implement e2ee.
There are ways. It's really up to us.
@rysiek I just found an open source discord alternative, I never heard about until now, it must be quite new, its called revolt. It looks quite alive already with various servers to chose from. It would be great to learn more about it! https://revolt.chat/
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@rysiek I just found an open source discord alternative, I never heard about until now, it must be quite new, its called revolt. It looks quite alive already with various servers to chose from. It would be great to learn more about it! https://revolt.chat/
@jasperb @rysiek I've been following progress on Revolt for years now -- it's very close. I think there may be one or two semi-important features still missing, but if more people started using it that could help pick up the pace of development.
One down-side is that the instructions for installation seem to be geared more towards development than self-hosting, last I checked -- but again, that can be remedied.
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@weekend_editor And noisy.
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Apparently not, unless lurking in the background somewhere (I do that a lot).
I also see they were advertising the Dorado.
What a mess! That thing was a big, hot ECL machine. As far as I know, they never quite worked out the timing bugs enough to make it work to commercial reliability levels, or at least not at a price below $100k. (In 1982 dollars!)
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@dansup oh nice. One of the things I dislike of Mastodon is that a deletion does not map to a Tombstone object as it should per the ActivityPub spec.
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@weekend_editor Here are more AAAI 82 photos, maybe you're in there somewhere.
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Interesting!
I was actually *at* AAAI-82, when that screenshot says it was taken.
It was at CMU that year; I was working at GTE Labs and had an 1108 on my desk (or maybe it was 1983?). Didn't much like Interlisp, since I was a MacLisp guy trending to a Lisp Machine guy.
In those days, they handed out paper proceedings. In this case, they still fit in one volume. I was one of those nerds who spent the night before frantically reading, trying to decide which papers to go see presented.
Here's what the proceedings looked like:
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