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Discord's Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance | ID Verification, Palantir, & Thiel (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 hours ago by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

The fascist noose is tightening the world over thanks to proprietary big tech. We have to escape now while we can to open-source alternatives.

Currently the best self-hostable, private (encrypted) and federated communication platform is XMPP/Jabber, which I recommend switching to as soon as possible.

Armed with an XMPP account, you will be able to log into any open Movim instance, which is an XMPP client that offers 90% of the features of Discord, including group video calls, group texts, and even screensharing with audio (must use a Chromium based browser currently to share the audio). The only feature missing is discord-style rooms, which the dev is currently working on to release as fast as possible.

For a more complete guide to swapping proprietary apps for safe open-source ones, I suggest referring to this post: https://lemmy.cafe/post/18663514

[–] who@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Currently the best self-hostable, private (encrypted) and federated communication platform is XMPP/Jabber

This is a very subjective opinion. I consider XMPP to be useful for small groups that have a knowledgeable admin to offer help, but a poor fit for the unguided public if a rich feature set and long-term accounts are important. YMMV.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh no, how did we use it for decades and were even able to talk to Google Chat users.

[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

There isn't really any other option that is federated, has video calls and screensharing, and offers encryption besides Matrix/Element, which I've personally had a lot of usability problems with, and it's encryption has a concerning metadata issue and thus I don't really recommend it.

Not sure where a user would need admin help with Movim, it's pretty slick and user-friendly. I consider it the best working alternative that's using a proven back-end technology that we currently have available.

All other centralized alternative Discord clones on the market are generally still in an alpha or beta-stage, don't offer encryption at all, and use unproven back-ends that may not be able to scale to a large user-base. Where as the Movim client has been in development since 2010, allows for federation (like lemmy/piefed) to scale up, and is ready to use in the here and now.