Yeah absolutely, Discord is terrible for privacy either way. What I'm saying is that the verification "requirement" is not actually required for what I would presume the majority of people use Discord for.
Yeah, except it's not like you get to choose. If you are on the Discord server for rock climbing in your country, you can leave the community, but you don't have "other options".
It's not like the question is "what platform do I want to use for X?".
The question is "The X community uses Discord, do I want to be in it or not?" And of course you can choose to not join, but you don't have an option to choose another app.
Here in the UK Discord has been requiring this for a while already. I never did the verification, because I don't access any NSFW Discord servers anyway. Unless you use Discord for porn (or speak on "stages", whatever they are), there is no reason to do the verification.
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This was my experience. Every time people suggest it as a Discord alternative I'm like, have you actually tried it? I hate Discord as much as the next guy but Matrix doesn't get anywhere close. I tried really hard to like it and give it a chance, but no.
Interesting, to me a tech bro means someone who isn't really interested in tech other than as a vehicle to make money. The people going fad after fad through blockchain, metaverse, NFTs, AI, all as an investment opportunity without actually having any real technical knowledge about any of it. The people who aren't geeks but are faking it as a front to convince investors and consumers that they invented something of value. A fake interest in LOTR fits my view of tech bros exactly.
The people happy to build the Torment Nexus and name it after a LOTR artifact as if it wasn't an affront to LOTR.
If the content is still good, and it allows hiring more people and produce more of the good content, then what's the problem with the channel being bought? Sure, it may enshittify in the future, but let's not judge them for things that haven't happened.
Yeah, I guess they are seeing the answer on their side because they need to be able to judge that when you say your first car model name differently than when you typed it in, it's the same thing.
Because you are not trying to recall the answer, you are answering the question, and can word the answer differently than before.
Funny thing is when a bank employee asks you for the answer on the phone. I was like 5 characters in dictating the random 32 characters when she just stopped me and let me do what I called to do.
Why? Do you genuinely believe we won't solve some kind of suspended animation / cryonics in the next 10000 years, to be able to sleep as your ship takes 300 years to go to another star?
I get what you are saying but I'm seeing this from a different perspective.
The first statement is saying "there is nothing you can do". You shouldn't care about your privacy, you shouldn't try to be careful, you shouldn't fight for yourself. The government is all powerful and you should accept your fate. That's why I don't like these sweeping absolute statements. They promote giving up.
The other is "this is hard, but it's possible to win". And sure, you probably won't win if the government is specifically targeting you and sending agents with rubber hoses against you. But in all likelihood they aren't. And there are many things you can do to prevent actual passive surveillance affecting you.
So "any phone" turned into "virtually any phone", and the owner needs to be alive and apprehended, and then they "most likely" can, maybe.
See, I mostly agree with what you said. But you can see how we have moved the goalpost away from "there is no phone the government cannot get into", to "the government can get into most phones", which is quite a different statement.
The point is that someone will want to fix something about their car, get stopped by these screws that they don't own a screwdriver for, and will have to make a decision: wait a week for the screwdriver from aliexpress, with no guarantee they will actually get their car fixed once it arrives, or... just take the car to the authorized service and get it fixed now. And they have the thing on Saturday and their car needs to work, and...
Some will buy the screwdriver, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that many people won't, and that's extra profit for BMW.
Yeah absolutely, Discord is terrible for privacy either way. What I'm saying is that the verification "requirement" is not actually required for what I would presume the majority of people use Discord for.