FlufflesAway
Student
- Jul 31, 2024
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Part of my larger crusade against non-free software. Discord was valued at $15 billion. It's the users that give it any value, but get nothing but surveillance and control in return. Some reasons not to use Discord: https://stallman.org/discord.html .
My personal gripes about Discord:
-- They require linking a google account to it (I don't use google, another surveillance company).
-- They ask for mobile pone numbers to 'verify' users.
-- They train their AIs on users' chats.
-- There's no privacy on Discord.
-- The degree of surveillance is not knowable because their programs are not open source.
I propose SimpleX chat (https://simplex.chat/) as a discord alternative. No, it's not a one-to-one replacement, but it's a good technical response to wanting a distributed, secure instant chat program with voice/video capabilities and other things modern users demand. It's free libre open source software, self-hostable, and is available on the modern hosts (Windows, Apple, Linux, Android).
This thread is to share SimpleX chat groups and promote its use.
I've made a group. It's focused more on trying to recover, but suicide talk is fine.
Break free from surveillance and promote user-created user-modifiable programs!
Thanks for coming to my schizo ted-talk.
My personal gripes about Discord:
-- They require linking a google account to it (I don't use google, another surveillance company).
-- They ask for mobile pone numbers to 'verify' users.
-- They train their AIs on users' chats.
-- There's no privacy on Discord.
-- The degree of surveillance is not knowable because their programs are not open source.
I propose SimpleX chat (https://simplex.chat/) as a discord alternative. No, it's not a one-to-one replacement, but it's a good technical response to wanting a distributed, secure instant chat program with voice/video capabilities and other things modern users demand. It's free libre open source software, self-hostable, and is available on the modern hosts (Windows, Apple, Linux, Android).
This thread is to share SimpleX chat groups and promote its use.
I've made a group. It's focused more on trying to recover, but suicide talk is fine.
SimpleX Chat - Contact
simplex.chat
Break free from surveillance and promote user-created user-modifiable programs!
Thanks for coming to my schizo ted-talk.