Matrix/Element seems the best drop-in replacement for Discord. Can set up chatrooms in Discord "server"-style, or as persistent DMs with others. In the chatrooms, you can make text chat spaces and call spaces. No dedicated voice chat space, you just dont turn on webcam for the call spaces. Pretty sure it uses same voip tech. Selfhostable if you want. Encrypted. Really it is just a barebones but functional Discord. Matrix can be bridged to Discord as well so you can talk between either, should help ease the transition period for anyone jumping ship.
Because grima wormtongue the prediction engine whispers of horrors to come in the kings ears? Take the catastrophic eain flashfloods. They have ramped up hard recently.
And then there was the morroco, greek and italian floods.
Its expected to hit mountanous areas the hardest, devaluing cities in valleys like they are in a warzone. And this is the smallest, obvious event series kept on the downlow, because society already falls apart, loosing its structure.
The panopticon is a desperate attempt to controll the only thing controllable in situations to come.
You must be new the internet was toxic before their was an internet. I've seen BBS fights where people would find out where someone lived and shoot up the place, set it on fire or attack another person. Some BBS scenes attracted some shady characters.
Gamergate directly brought the shitty 4chan kind of toxicity and harassment to the national stage. No we didn't have this kind of "trolling" by a major political party and the POTUS himself. To pretend otherwise is either being intentionally dense or merely ignorant.
The ways that data has been weaponized to amplify insecure people's fear of social change and "others" in order to vote against their own economic interests are novel and fascinating. Yes, obviously the pattern has played out before the internet. But if you approach it with curiosity rather than writing it off because it looks similar on the surface to something you've seen before, it's actually very interesting.
People speaking out against immoral behavior and people in power/media trying to cover it up by dismissing their claims and trying to undermine their argument by misrepresentation? Gamergate was just the internet hitting a critical mass of people where the clamoring of people was big enough to make news outside of the bubble.
Matrix/Element seems the best drop-in replacement for Discord. Can set up chatrooms in Discord "server"-style, or as persistent DMs with others. In the chatrooms, you can make text chat spaces and call spaces. No dedicated voice chat space, you just dont turn on webcam for the call spaces. Pretty sure it uses same voip tech. Selfhostable if you want. Encrypted. Really it is just a barebones but functional Discord. Matrix can be bridged to Discord as well so you can talk between either, should help ease the transition period for anyone jumping ship.
Stoat, Zulip, and Mattermost are other options.
Element was a bit too raw for me - mobile wasn’t great either. Ymmv
For mobile, you can use FluffyChat, it's another Matrix app
The age verification is pushed (lobbied) by the same companies which collect data: Palantir, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and others.
How do you think EU and UK came to this idea ? Google was pushing it from some time but they needed a "legal framework".
In the future they will not need your phone anymore for border or house searches.
Yes, and? This sounds like a guilt-by-association accusation with no relevance.
Anyway, people are free not to use Discord if they don't like their age verification feature. It is one chat service amongst many, not a monopoly.
Why does the whole world smell like a giant gamergate? Why is there just no shame, the same endless bad pervading it's way everywhere?
Because grima wormtongue the prediction engine whispers of horrors to come in the kings ears? Take the catastrophic eain flashfloods. They have ramped up hard recently.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/10/german-v...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/237420/economic-damage-c...
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/one-de...
And then there was the morroco, greek and italian floods.
Its expected to hit mountanous areas the hardest, devaluing cities in valleys like they are in a warzone. And this is the smallest, obvious event series kept on the downlow, because society already falls apart, loosing its structure.
The panopticon is a desperate attempt to controll the only thing controllable in situations to come.
what does this have to do with gamergate? If you smell the same thing everywhere you go, you might want to check under your nose.
Because these things are linked
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/us/gamergate-harassment-reddi...
You must be new the internet was toxic before their was an internet. I've seen BBS fights where people would find out where someone lived and shoot up the place, set it on fire or attack another person. Some BBS scenes attracted some shady characters.
Okay grandpa let's get you to bed.
Gamergate directly brought the shitty 4chan kind of toxicity and harassment to the national stage. No we didn't have this kind of "trolling" by a major political party and the POTUS himself. To pretend otherwise is either being intentionally dense or merely ignorant.
terrible post
The ways that data has been weaponized to amplify insecure people's fear of social change and "others" in order to vote against their own economic interests are novel and fascinating. Yes, obviously the pattern has played out before the internet. But if you approach it with curiosity rather than writing it off because it looks similar on the surface to something you've seen before, it's actually very interesting.
People speaking out against immoral behavior and people in power/media trying to cover it up by dismissing their claims and trying to undermine their argument by misrepresentation? Gamergate was just the internet hitting a critical mass of people where the clamoring of people was big enough to make news outside of the bubble.