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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And the process of logging in on your phone requires scanning a QR code from your desktop (a technically-minded person will understand this is necessary for E2EE, but to an average user it's just strange).

Pretty sure discord has the same.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Discord has E2EE?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    QR based sign in

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    It's optional; you can also just use your standard username and password.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    It has QR based sign in. Shit, Steam has QR based sign in so it shouldn't be weird for people at this point.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I've seen QR-based login before as an option. (Heck, I was an early adopter of SQRL...or tried to be. Sadly that protocol never went anywhere.) But it's not typically mandatory, and I don't think most casual users (the kinds of people who just reuse the same password everywhere rather than using a password manager) aren't likely to be especially comfortable with it.

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