fid02 other8026 matchboxbananasynergy Uhm, Discord sounds nice, but they never allowed me to create an account, not without giving my real phone number at least. Since it sounds like CSAM actually do gets posted every now and then on the Matrix side, I guess I will just stay here on the forum where it is safer.

          ryrona Are you connecting behind a VPN? Try changing servers until it finds one that doesn't trigger spam checks. Might also trigger fewer checks to sign up through the Discord app and not the website (unsure).

              fid02 Yeah, I tried from both Tor and VPN. Problem is I burn my e-mail address every attempt, and customer support wasn't helpful either. And like 30% of everyone I know who have been using Discord has suddenly one day got banned for no apparent reason. I think Discord's automated moderation system is generally hostile to some of us. Everyone I know is saying to move to Matrix and not bother with Discord. But it seems Matrix is not so suited for large open chat rooms. With that said, I will keep trying to sign up every second year or so, hoping they let me in one day.

                FYI, regarding Discord...a spy site is scraping Discord and selling user messages. “Spy Pet” is apparently scraping more than 10,000 Discord servers. For just ~$5, people can start searching for Discord handles, which will bring up their messages posted in a Discord server (not PMs though), assuming the bots have access and are actively scraping. Bots of this service are apparently in some of the popular servers, too. Discord is “investigating” but hasn’t taken any action. In other words, you’ve got more to worry about than just Discord knowing your activity.

                https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/discord_network_sale/

                  ryrona It's solely a Matrix problem because we disabled bridging the content to other platforms. IRC is too primitive to have inline media, Discord has good automatic filtering for anything not coming from the bridge since we have filtering nudity, etc. enabled and Telegram is alright. Matrix has major issues with CSAM, gore, etc. along with raids in general. As a federated platform with extremely little work put into anti-abuse and moderation tools, Matrix is extremely vulnerable to this. Avoid Matrix and you'll avoid it. It's the reason we aren't going to add uploading images to the forum, but we're going to add support for linking to images elsewhere via a privacy preserving media proxy (this is currently not active due to imgur blocking OVH).

                    ErnestThornhill This is not relevant to our chat rooms, and neither is Discord using the data. Our chat rooms are completely public, publicly archived and bridged across multiple platforms... It's the same as posting here on the forum. Everyone can see it including crawlers. Do you think that crawlers are not using all this content on the forum? They do, and they also use the chat room content via https://view.matrix.org/ even if they only crawl the web.

                      ryrona Our server doesn't require phone number verification so it will only be required if you use an IP with a bad reputation due to it being used for spam, raids, etc.

                        Of course I'm aware of the crawlers. Since Discord is an option as a chat platform for community members, I was sharing the article to let others know about/make them aware of it. That's all. I apologize if you thought otherwise.

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                        Dumdum No, Matrix isn't directly involved in the bridge. The bridge can work without it.

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                          Tbh SimpleX is even worse regarding moderation. All these very private messengers are just bad for moderating big rooms.

                          As these rooms are public, treat them as public. It sucks that you need to split tunnel Discord, I experienced the same and even after adding a real phone number I couldnt join a chat, just because of a VPN.

                          But in the end, use SimpleX or XMPP where you are in control, but these are not suited for public rooms.

                          Tbh I would also only use Matrix for public rooms, it isnt really privacy friendly either.

                            ErnestThornhill Its in the concept. Anyone can just create a new ID and spam again. You have no identifiers, thats the point.

                            Not sure about invite links, accepting them etc. That is probably fine

                                Never used the client Element with Matrix before and this is all new to me. I dont know what im doing wrong. I get to "GrapheneOS Community" room but at the bottom where you type I see this message: "You are not authorized to write in this room". What have I done wrong and what can I do to fix it so im able to type in the room.