Discord has quietly begun testing Incode as a new age verification provider, replacing its previous vendor for some users. The company says face scans are processed on-device where possible, IDs and selfies are deleted after age confirmation, and Discord only receives an age result, not your identity. But the move still raises important privacy questions around biometric verification, third-party trust, and the growing trend of mandatory age checks online, especially after the massive Persona breach linked to Discord user data back in 2025
I wish more FOSS communities would use Matrix, Discord sucks so I barely use it anymore
Fluxer just finally finished their big refactor that brought their code to GitHub for public contribution and they released their revamped selfhosting experience
Still. Not. Federated.
When Fluxer gets federation, I really think it will be a great drop-in for Discord. It’s very familiar.
Matrix really isn’t a good replacement for Discord. I wish forums were still the thing though, I hate threads in my chat apps.
Their desktop client is a memory hog too. Takes ages to launch and update
Yeah, for Discord on my PC I use it through Equibop. It works quite well.
On my computer I have to use Equibop because their shitass client doesn’t support ARM Linux
I like the marketing and on the surface, Matrix looks like something I would be on baord with, BUT… staff and leadership track back to amdocs and thats a red flag for me. Independent code review, analysis, security audit and activity verification might change my mind but at this point I have no incentive to invest effort into verifying matrix is safe after my concern radar has pinged.
Matrix is just the protocol so if you think that synapse (the server implementation developed by Element which does have ties to Amdocs) is somehow logging all your data and sending it back or whatever, just use a different implementation. For example, tuwunel is sponsored and used by Switzerland’s government.
I will say that Matrix does not have a good security track record for E2EE and all of the clients use their software to do it. If that’s a dealbreaker, you should probably use something security-oriented like Signal.
Was just addressing the amdocs complaint. Didn’t know about the security concerns but it’s most likely still better than Discord and I’m not sure if Signal is even in consideration when looking for a Discord alternative.
Sure i read that the protocol developments go back to amdocs Governments use palantir so not a benchmark reference for avoiding spyware. Like i said, red flag and lack of motivation to act enough to verify either way. Ymmv
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