They haven’t though.

They’ve just restated the exact same thing but then added on hollow empty promises of “this time we’ll be better, I swear!”

Cool, but you did say it’s not an EU problem

You’ve missed some news my friend, it’s an EU problem too, just the legal and privacy lawyers are fighting much harder so it keeps getting pushed away from going into law.

I’ll try and find some links for you in a sec.

Edit: link - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251120IPR31496/children-should-be-at-least-16-to-access-social-media-say-meps

How many of these can handle 5-10 people in a voice chat?

Cause I use Discord weekly for running and playing TTRPGs, over voice, occasionally doing screensharing when one or more of the players are having issues with their PC

add a better reporting system, one that automatically spoilers posts with multiple reports, and labels them as having received multiple reports, then asks the human server moderators to approve/delete

It’s what Reddit and Lemmy and Piefed use and it works wonders. And no AI involved.

Lemmy at least has built-in discoverabilty, you can search the entire federation, with ease, all from the search UI

Also the sign-up process is much much clearer and faster.

Yeah! Using the lying machine to detect things! Genius!

/Sarcasm

Sadly I think the end result of this won’t be people leaving discord, but people giving up liberties because it’s easier than fighting it

And they’re banking on that, it’s part of why they intentionally gave zero warning…1 month is nothing.

With more time a dedicated set of people could pull the alternatives up into solid real options

Or kick up such a huge ruckus that discord back down and undo it.

This was a very intentional and malicious choice to go “oh, yeah we’re doing this next month, kthnxbye”

Doesn’t solve the last two points

Reviews

It’s just a server host mate? There’s no such thing as “legitimacy” there?

• Oh you want to get on Matrix?

Download one of these 8 apps that’s only available through a website or F-Droid, 2 haven’t updated in 2 years, no we won’t tell you which.

• Then go to one of the 20 million homeservers

no they’re not servers, it just is where your account info lives, and nothing else

• Then you have to find servers on your own

there’s no “Explore” mode, there’s 20 websites that list servers, 5 of them are outdated, another 5 only work on a Tuesday, 10 of them only list 100/20,000 public servers

• okay I’m finally in some servers

Oh. They’re all quiet as fuck. All of them. What’s the point?

If they make the onboarding suck less, sure

I just love my IRC voice calls and IRC video streaming, great features that it totally has

Stoat is the most discordlike, Matrix is the most privacy-focused

You think the UK could?

The “tech experts” in government are fucking idiots, almost every single one of them. The most I think they’d be capable of asking providers nicely to follow their rules and then going “hahaha, no”, same as happened for every other time.

And I know for a fact that those blocks in China and Russia don’t work, cause I talk to a Russian on the daily (she wants to get the fuck out, but hasn’t got enough money)

And one major difference, it’s very very very easy to form a company in the UK, it’s literally a small fee and a form that takes 30-60 minutes to fill in

Yeah, but it’s the 21st century now

They fully can’t, there’s too many legitimate reasons that their corporate overlords use it for, the most you’ll get is loud filibuster about “we’ll totally do that!” until the topic gets forgotten.

Also, my personal conspiracy is that someone important in the gov owns some secret stocks and shares in a VPN company and this was very much a cash grab from that person.

There’s a FOSS tiktok equivalent?

Literally never heard of the website until today, this article is wildly overexaggerating