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Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by superkuh on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:52PM (#15875145)
That's the problem with centralization, walled gardens, and proprietary protocols. You won't ever have a problem if you just don't go into the gardens. Self-host with mumble, teamspeak, matrix, or something.

They all use the same Opus voice codec so it's not a quality issue.

Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by akoncius on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:58PM (#15875846)
then why cellphones are not treated same way? SMS/calls should be analyzed and then people should be banned from network if something is “wrong”. And by “wrong” I’m not talking about organising a crime such as terrorist attack or something.
Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by superkuh on Friday December 08, 2017 @02:20AM (#15877248)
Cell phone telco propviders have monopolies on radio spectrum that come with certain obligations, regulations, and conditions. That's in addition to inheriting the rules from land telephony and public infrastructure/title II stuff.

You can bet that this kind of thing will happen if they can make it happen though.

Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by AFNobody on Friday December 08, 2017 @02:59AM (#15877370)
Yeah, I use Riot/Matrix now and I can self-host it if I get disabled...but they don't mind if you don't give them a #/email so its really less of an issue there.