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[–] wecanhelp [M] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

they just change the source code

The difference is that

  • we know when they change it;
  • we know how they change it.

discord through tor browser

I think that's the minimum for anonymity with both Discord and Riot, but given the decentralized, redundant nature of Riot (technically, Matrix), there is no single point of control or failure, meaning you have to take down the entire network of participants to take down the discussion.

riot is great but isn't working

What's wrong with it? I'm not protecting it in that aspect as I haven't used it, merely interested.

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[–] nathanwblair [S] ago 

@wecanhelp sorry how do we know when voat changes their source code? thought it was the same system as (open source) reddit, who changed theirs without us knowing

also i agree about the decentralized nature of riot making it better, and that's why i'm writing a distributed version of Discord (which i prefer) that's scheduled to have a working version in ~14 days

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[–] wecanhelp [M] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

We can watch the repository on GitHub, the same as in Reddit's case. I'm not sure about your reference of Reddit changing code without the community knowing it. Was it due to some components turning out to be closed-source, or rather a human error with the changes being visible on GitHub but the community not noticing?

that's why i'm writing a distributed version of Discord

I don't want to discourage your work at all, but it is highly undesirable for our people to migrate to a freshly baked software that has no community peer-reviewing it and will inherently have a lot of bugs and vulnerabilities waiting to eventually be discovered and treated. Reinventing the wheel is not necessarily the good strategy.

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[–] nathanwblair [S] ago  (edited ago)

@wecanhelp so the discord is temporary either way, we can move to riot if we get taken down before then, since all info is submitted to voat we won't have lost info