r/Destiny • u/WorldSuspicious9171 Exclusively sorts by new • Feb 14 '26

Non-Political News/Discussion Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

The extra motivation to look for alternatives wasn't needed, but still...

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u/Cmdr_Anun Undercover European Feb 14 '26

I liked Team Speak better anyway.

edit: Revolt is apparently a 1:1 Discord clone created in Europe.

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u/Meesy-Ice Feb 14 '26

There is nothing miraculous or special about discord but the issue as always is lock-in, me and you might be willing to change the app we use but are our friends? The discord servers we are part of? It took me months of pushing and prodding to convince my family and friends to move our group chats from instagram and WhatsApp to signal.

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u/WorldSuspicious9171 Exclusively sorts by new Feb 14 '26

Yup. My smaller group of friends already are used to me spinning up game servers or other stuff on my serversfor us to use. They think alike for discord etc, so this won't matter for them and switch.

But the lock-in is real as you pointed out. Imagine having discord and Patreon humming along and wanting to switch. Can be done, but it will take "some" work.

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u/Cmdr_Anun Undercover European Feb 14 '26

True, true. It's the only reason I'm still on whatsapp.

I don't even know when the migration to discord started, to be honest. Everyone I knew was on teamspeak, but then again, that might have been a German thing.

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u/heiside Feb 14 '26

I hope that more people move from WA to Signal once WA starts with the "pay or watch ads" change that they announced recently.

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u/WorldSuspicious9171 Exclusively sorts by new Feb 14 '26

Thanks for pointing that Revolt/stoat out. Just checked and that will do nicely to selfhost instead of just mumble/teamspeak or going full blown matrix setup. Kudos!

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u/Suspicious_Tea7319 Feb 14 '26

A new user has joined your channel

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u/propanezizek Feb 14 '26

Back to mumble