Posted on 02/27/2022 2:13:23 PM PST by dalight
Hey there,
Some important changes are coming to Discord: we’re updating our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines.
These changes will take effect on March 28, 2022. We’re letting you know ahead of time so you can learn what’s changing.
Here are the main things to know:
How we use your information
We’ve updated our Privacy Policy to provide better clarity on what information we collect and how we use and share it.
How we describe our services
As Discord has evolved, it has become clear that not all communities on Discord are the same. We want users to understand the difference between posting in public and private spaces on Discord and to choose the appropriate space, features, and settings for them and their messages. New and clearer rules for prohibited content
Our Community Guidelines now officially prohibit misinformation and disinformation, malicious impersonation, and better define spam and platform manipulation.
We encourage you to read the updated documents in full. We’ve also summarized some of the most important changes in a post on the Discord Blog.
These policies will be in effect on March 28, 2022. Using Discord on or after that date means you agree to these changes.
Thanks for helping us build a place where everyone can belong.
Discord
I believe Facebook and discord are the only two real options for that so yes it does seem like a good market for a free speech system
Discord or Disqus?
Are you thinking of Disqus?
IAC, time for a:
Thought Police Alert!
The link is dead. “Wrong link” message.
Discord? Never heard of you.
Who or what is a “Discord?”
Have you ever wondered how a movie can take place in the daytime, but look like it’s nighttime? Or why your favorite television show sometimes makes everything look blue or orange?
Well, color is an important part of any visual medium. It helps set the mood for what we’re seeing and gives us clues about who’s involved or what might be going on.
I finally looked it up....it’s a gamers’ platform messaging and comm system, apparently.
What kind of link is that? You get paid for that?
Anyway
https://matrix.org/
https://element.io/
What my wife and I use to communicate. Encrypted. It’s just text messaging basically but you have have “Spaces” and “Rooms”. A Main Space plus Rooms for smaller groups of people.
For something more complete, a Distributed Social Network is the thing because many people could host their own on many servers yet each installation can interact with the others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network
One ‘distributed social network’ is Mastadon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software), and that’s what Truth Social web version is supposed to run on, albeit a customized version. I don’t know if it will be able to connect with other Mastadon instances as is standard with distributed social networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking
And more here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse#Fediverse_software_platforms
Mastadon is a member of the “Fediverse” and runs the Activity Pub protocol; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
Hubzilla and others also run on Activity Pub and are able to connect to Mastadon instances. I can install Hubzilla with a few clicks on my basic web hosting.
Anyone with good fast internet service like fiber optic can install all the software needed to host their own website(s) and services like the above. You do need either a dedicated IP address or a DDNS service which is cheap. DDNS = Dynamic Domain Name Server which solves the problem of your IP address changing like it does with most Internet Service Providers.
Then there’s FreedomBox and similar that make it easier to run web services/apps from your home; https://www.freedombox.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Features
So yes, there are web based communication systems that are pretty resilient because there are many installations on many servers, including some personal web servers.
It’s just a matter of whether or not people want to put some effort into learning, teaching and spreading the word.
I just use Discord for MMA chat on UFC fight nights. Didn’t even know they had political channels.
I’ve only ever used Discord for PokémonGO raids and such.
Discord is a voice chat mostly for games. This suggests they’re recording everything you say and if it’s not approved speech you’re removed. Early on Discord was easy to find people’s ISP’s which made it great for hackers. I don’t know if that is still true.
World of Warcraft Guild Raids...
I really like Rocket.Chat. It is a free, self-hosted chat that is very much like Slack. While their hosted service costs $3/user per month, you can also download and self-host for free.
It’s also a big one for child predators. A friend of mine told me about cops coming to the school interviewing children and having a look at school computers to aid in an investigation.
Discord is the company, Disqus is the product.
This is the email I got today. Discord who hosts the application Disqus which offers responsive chats for lots of websites has decided they are going to determine what facts you are allowed to share, much less what opinions you are allowed to have. They are claiming to have a policy that you can read in-depth that allows them to censor posts that have disinformation or misinformation..
Unfortunately, FR is still caught in the 1990’s and we can’t edit anything once you post it. They put so much tracking crap on the links in the email that apparently is user specific. My bad.
Here is the link to the new guidelines.
https://discord.com/guidelines
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