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Sent messages to all of my Discord friends and told them I'm deleting the app and asked for other methods to contact them and gave them my contact info as well.

Each one of them responded with contact info. They were leaving as well.

Don't let others keep you on a service that doesn't care about you.

in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

so you folks all went the Jon Mastodon way, or running away from Discord took you to the Matrix.org ?
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

so you're going to advertise @mrfunkedude:matrix.org on your «all of my links» mrfunkedude.com ?

(or your matrix chatroom)

in reply to PoLiTiPeT

@politipet I put the links where I want and I give them out to whom I want.

What's your point?

in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

I was just wondering how you would advertise your Matrix.org use, in comparison to your Fediverse use. I have seen you already advertise your public Matrix chatroom in your Masto profile, that's why I'm asking.
in reply to PoLiTiPeT

@politipet I put out a couple of posts each week telling people about the chat. Currently there are 58 people who pop in and out but about 10 that are regulars.

I advertise both as needed to different groups.

in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

I used to have my public chat matrix.to/#/#politipet:matrix.… showing on my Masto profile, similarly to you, and eventually removed it for lack of success. It seemed to me that people on Masto (at least the ones following me) did not give a damn about Matrix, except 2 guys.
in reply to PoLiTiPeT

it also seemed to me that convincing a Fedi user to even just try Matrix was really not a piece of cake.
in reply to PoLiTiPeT

@politipet I've never really had a problem. I just invite and people who want to show up. If they don't, then they don't. 🤷
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

@politipet

I haven’t dipped into matrix anything at all. And I think if you’ve ever spoken on that environment, I’d love a link or if you haven’t think of it is a topic idea!

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@me I was wondering how Mastodon/Fediverse and Matrix.org compare/fit/fight/fare

Technically, Matrix.org is not Fédiverse – not even bridged afaik – although it is federated as well. To me, Matrix is chat/discord/slack, which Masto is "not really" – but could be and sometimes is used for that.

in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

Perhaps I’m out of the loop here. What’s going on with Discord?
in reply to Taylor

@Taylor I don't use it so I haven't been paying super close attention, but theyrl're now (or soon to be) requiring face scans/government ID to use it.
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

Discord knows who you talk to, what you talk about, has profiled you to the absolute level, fingerprinted your devices and probably a lot of other nasty stuff BUT the boiling point for you is the ID verification??

I knew discord users were absolutely braindead but now I know how braindead they are.

in reply to Neil Moffatt

Damn it I hate when others thinks of obvious jokes before me.
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in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

So what are the alternatives for those who use Discord for paying voice/video table top role playing games (ttrpgs)?
in reply to Kinene⭐🐻

@c_merriweather Honestly, I don't think there is a direct 1 to 1 replacement. You can find chat's that have some of the features, but no one has all of them.

I prefer Matrix.org because that's what I have the most experience in. It lacks good admin tools and there can be an on-boarding difficulty for some, but mostly it does the job that I need it to.

Of course your mileage may vary.

in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

i switched to stoat.chat. i need nothing fancy, just group voicechat though..
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in reply to Kinene⭐🐻

@c_merriweather Jitsi meet is a Zoom replace type thing so there's that.

Although it isn't really a space with chat rooms and such, you could set up a vdo.ninja room. You can save how everyone's video displays and no one even has to sign up for anything. It's all just URL's. You could easily set up multiple video feeds and switch between them if you have different maps or images to show .

in reply to calvin 🛋️

@calvin The groups I am in are focused around particular ttrpgs, or game campaigns. I'm not there for social commentary.
in reply to Kinene⭐🐻

@c_merriweather oh sorry maybe I misunderstood your question. I just figured I'd suggest some alternatives to Discord, at least regarding video conferencing stuff.
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

New side job: setting up and maintaining Discord-equivalent services for local people who need them.
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

I'm going to wait a bit, I know the policy is not changing. But want to wait closer to "just" before I'm not able to login again, then pull the rug.
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

Failed to even be able to log in to either Discord or Matrix, but then I was rejected from Eton prep school as too stupid also! There may be some kind of message here.

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in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

bruh now discord has you and your friends' contact* info
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in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

so noble, so just, and so wise. We should all aspire to this level of atonement, high up on the pillars of mo...oh hol' up I just got a Discord notification, brb
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

I'd had a Discord account for several years. I deleted my account today.

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in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

I haven't either, I've been wanting to switch off discord for a while now and was trying to decide which to go for. I think I'm gonna go for stoat though
in reply to parzival

@parzivalrp2 I hear it’s a little buggy, so I haven’t given it a try. Let me know what you think of it when you have please.
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

well mate, good for you, but all mine are staying there.

I already went scorched-earth on my Facebook account, and honestly have paid the price in isolation as a result. I'm not doing that twice. Sometimes spite and principles only carry you so far.

I have, at the least, cancelled my payments to Discord.

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