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That’s why it seems so slow! I couldn’t put my finger on it, but you’re right. Ugh, how annoying.

I use servers extensively, for several communities (some small like my weekly RPG game servers and my book club, some much bigger like the AI art servers I’m on), all of which have multiple channels which are used for different things. Correct me if I’m wrong but afaik Signal (and Molly which I’d previously not heard of) doesn’t do that

No. Signal doesn’t have that as a feature. It works pretty well though, especially for smaller groups of people who are focused on a shared interest.

I don’t understand all the technicalities, but Molly is a hardened fork of Signal. It’s the recommended way to use Signal in most privacy communities.

I don’t think there have been any major leaks have there?

Not that I know of, but the leaks aren’t the point. Much like other platforms such as Facebook, they’re using our data for profit. Their privacy policy is pretty concerning, and moreover since it’s closed source we don’t even have an effective way to verify that our data isn’t being misused. If I could convince everyone I know on discord to sacrifice some convenience, such as having multiple channels, for the sake of a more privacy-focused FOSS platform, I would. But I value my time with some of the users I’ve come to know on Discord enough that I’m not willing to just cut them off.

Another problem with Discord is that there is virtually no support or follow-through when some pretty dark stuff starts to pop off. For example, I was a mod on a pretty large gaming discord. Was. Beyond kicking people, I reported threats of violence, racist/genocidal rants against entire ethnicities or sexual identities (including calls to violence), scam accounts, virtual CSAM being posted, and oh-so-many cases of users grooming minors. Not once did I see anyone’s account suspended for these things, or any action taken beyond my kicking them from the server. I know Discord has been involved in such scandals before, and from what I’ve observed, nothing ever changed. I wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually takes down Discord. There are so many problems there, and none of them ever get properly addressed.

And you’re rude. Username does not check out.

Hope my blocklist brings you joy.

Same exact experience for me!

They’re not very privacy friendly, and they’re a closed-source app. They haven’t done anything outrageously bad afaik, but there are much better platforms, such as Signal/Molly, especially for those of us who basically use it as a chat app.

Suuuure, and the people on tumblr, and the other people in this thread who’ve had it enabled.

This is some weird, rude, reddit-tier gaslighting arrogance, mY gUy. Totally unchill and uncalled for.

Don’t believe me, idgaf, and don’t ever speak to me again.

My phone’s a S21 as well (well, S21 FE), and I’m in South Dakota. I’ve had my account since 2017.

Someone from the EU itt reported that they had the settings enabled like I did, so I now think the location hypothesis is wrong. Must be just A/B testing or whatever it’s called, or possibly something more nefarious.

It never gave me a message about experimental testing when I disabled it lol. Discord must be doing some real deep testing right now because so many users are having slightly different experiences.

Thanks for letting me know! I was starting to feel like I was alone, although clearly it’s happening to some of us, based on our experience and the tumblr post.

I wonder if this difference in experience might have something to do with privacy laws in different countries. I’m in the US.

I wouldn’t be terribly surprised! This makes me feel that perhaps it was good to post this. The more people check this setting, the less discord would be able to benefit from such a strategy. In any case, it never hurts to review one’s privacy settings from time to time.

Weird inconsistencies aside, this whole new design is pretty terrible imo. It feels pretty out of touch with how people actually use and navigate the platform.

This is making my head hurt, but the checkbox hasn’t re-checked itself after I left and returned. That is so odd.

Someone in my discord server also said it wasn’t enabled for him. This is messing with my mind because I feel confident I would never have enabled such a thing! I’m always so mindful of not letting apps access my phone contacts.

Do you have the latest version? This is 207.23 on Android.

Both settings were enabled for me.

This whole thing is weird. Two people have commented saying it’s not enabled for them, but I feel certain I didn’t enable it myself, and it was enabled for me after the latest update.

Edit: Someone in a discord server said it wasn’t enabled for them either so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This gave me the first genuine laugh I’ve had today. Thanks.

Oh yes I know just what you’re talking about, and this makes me irrationally angry.

I can’t totally disable it either because my fingers are too big for the damn digital keyboard.

Search engines should not ever, under any circumstances use geo-location data to provide results. If I search for “current weather,” it shouldn’t know where I am, and it should require qualifiers on my part if I want to narrow it down.

On a similar topic, my devices should not automatically change settings to adapt to my routine. Settings should only change if I manually change them.

Since the publication of this piece in 2016, methodological flaws have been found in Singh’s study and other desistance research, and recent studies suggest that detransition rates are very low.

Yep, and based on this footnote it seems the opposite may be true. This doesn’t seem to be referencing limitations of the study, but rather that the whole study is called into question.

Maybe I read too much into it, but I was also sensing a subtext of “both sides” throughout the article regarding transgender people/allies and the anti-trans crowd.

Odd article. Not sure I found it edifying or helpful.