Discord Issues

[ysabetwordsmith]

Discord is planning a radical violation of privacy for all users.  It will require facial recognition or ID in order to escape designation as teen with account restrictions.  This is ineffective and risky.  Many people are upset by the violation of privacy because so many platforms have been hacked to extract that valuable information.

Some Discord users are already abandoning the platform and moving to Dreamwidth or others.  Please pass the word around Dreamwidth to your friends on Discord to see if this platform appeals to them.  This post has many resources for newcomers about how to use Dreamwidth..

Comments

[soc_puppet]

Dreamwidth is a very different animal from Discord, no question, but at the very least it can be a safe haven to copy-paste old Discord threads to so they don't get eaten. And some people might find they like it here and decide to use Dreamwidth for other reasons. If anyone is interested in even old Discord thread storage, they can probably find some useful stuff in the tutorials!

[sewagelag00n]

Ah, gotcha! I probably should start archiving my Discord threads. I started, but there's just SO MUCH in my backlog that I kinda gave up. Do you have any recommendations for services to download Discord messages? (I guess it's probably worth asking)

[soc_puppet]

Honestly, I don't have a lot I feel the need to save from Discord, so I've mostly been copy-pasting and editing as needed; there probably is a good service out there for that, but I haven't bothered to look yet 😅 Maybe someone will link one here, or in the latest dw_news post!