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> You cannot join anyone's discord chats without the digital equivalent of showing an ID. This only happens via Tor and oft-abused VPN providers. "Showing ID"
by beefhash 7y ago
> You cannot join anyone's discord chats without the digital equivalent of showing an ID.
This only happens via Tor and oft-abused VPN providers. "Showing ID" has two benefits:
1. It helps mitigate a lot of unsophisticated spam attacks, taking off server load and annoyance off users.
2. It helps to some extent with mitigating criminal affairs because any potential criminal that falls in the gap between "doesn't realize IP addresses may leak location information" and "knows how to use compromised hosts as proxy" can be picked off by the authorities once they're noticed.
Anonymity is gone and it's not coming back. We have to adapt and we don't get a choice. At least there's some minor upsides to it.
- sneak 7y agoIt also helps discriminate against all participants who require or prefer their human right to privacy: https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/ https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-c...
- allovernow 7y ago>Anonymity is gone and it's not coming back. We have to adapt and we don't get a choice. At least there's some minor upsides to it. The choice starts with us, the developers building this antisocial software. The industry is in desperate need of a collective attitude adjustment before we pass the event horizon of the quickly approaching tech dystopia.
- sneak 7y agoExcluding those who do not identify has a whole host of downsides, which far outweigh the benefits in times of crisis. Anonymity is not gone. You’ve just rejected it, and that’s fine. Many of us still live in ways where our private lives remain private.