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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17618684

Forced arbitration means any legal disputes you may have with Discord must be resolved through a single third party mediator, who 99% of the time is chosen by, and will rule in favor of, the corporation/Discord. This effectively removes all your legal rights as a consumer, because arbitration decisions are legally binding and non-appealable.

The new ToS goes into effect April 15th, 2024.

YOU CAN OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION. You must email [email protected] BEFORE MAY 15TH (30 days after ToS effective date) with your username stating that you wish to opt out of the arbitration clause. Once May 15th passes you are bound to arbitration with Discord forever.

Opt-out before it’s too late.

  • Nora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34·
    7 months ago

    We need a Federated FOSS Discord alternative built to work with the activity pub protocol.

      • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        7 months ago

        Honestly, matrix is incredibly user unfriendly. It needs to stop being held up as an option for these sort of things.

        • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.devEnglish
          8·
          7 months ago

          Even my 60 year old mother who needs tech support for her iPhone every other month had no problems setting up a matrix account when I asked her to use it instead of sms.

          What are your issues Matrix?

        • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          7 months ago

          How is it user unfriendly? The default client Element looks exactly if not better than discord and there’s servers where you don’t even need to verify your mail to register.

      • Nora@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        We don’t need a completely decentralized system. Matrix is not efficient, its bloated and overly complicated compared to what you could have. A federated system with minimal overhead would be nice. This is the reason I went with XMPP over matrix for self hosting a discord alternative. I just wish we had something like XMPP that interacted with activitypub.

    • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      Unfortunately, ActivityPub isn’t really designed to scale in a way that a Discord alternative would require. The intended behavior for federation isn’t clear either. Matrix is already a mature federated chat server with dozens of clients including an official one. Building a Discord clone client for it would be a lot easier than rolling a whole new custom server.