Hi all,

I haven’t used Discord in a while, but it became so that now I have to use it for communication with certain people getting support for some services that I use. What I’m doing currently is:

  • using a separate randomised e-mail address only for the Discord account
  • using a randomly generated username
  • no profile picture
  • tweaking the settings as best I can for privacy

Other than these points, I’m also being wary of talking about anything personal on Discord. Would you add anything so I can be even safer when using Discord?

  • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    5 months ago

    I know interested people don’t like to talk about it…but we, the people, should really be moving away from Discord. A bucket of water doesn’t fix a burning house, ya know?

    • flux@lemmy.ml
      2·
      5 months ago

      Moving away from Discord can mean you need to stop interacting with the community using it. My personal examples are: Tilt5, Makera, Turbo Sliders. In the these cases Discord is also the way to access support for something you’ve paid for.

      Getting thise communities to move into something open (e.g. Matrix) can be a tall order.

      • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 months ago

        I get your point, but that’s exactly what I do. When someone say “just use discord”, I drop their product/service/etc. and move on. I’m not saying everyone else should do that, but my life is too short for “support” via Discord

      • rar@discuss.online
        1·
        5 months ago

        It’s a hostage situation they’re doing like any proprietary social network. You want to encourage people to move away from them, but then you need to interact with those same people in order to do that.