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A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot on the Discord, despite protests from members.

Users voted to restrict Anthropic's Claude to its own channel, but Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a moderator in the Discord, overrode them. According to members of this Discord community who spoke with 404 Media on the condition of anonymity, the Discord that was once vibrant is now a ghost town. They blame the chatbot and Clinton’s behavior following its launch.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago

Is there an open Discord clone? If not, is someone working on one?

[-] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Matrix is close, but not sure about the streaming and voice. Access control is also a bit immature.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Matrix is different and does different things, also you have to keep your security key written down and nobody's gonna help you if you get locked out of your account without it

[-] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

You don't. Never had to yet and it works fine...

Can you elaborate on the different things...?

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

When, not if, element crashes (android or webapp or desktop, all do that), you get logged out and in order to access encrypted groups (dms are encrypted groups with 2 members) you need recovery key, or room keys (you can export them). If you have exchanged keys in person, then the first one recovers it too, the second doesn't

Matrix lacks some of discord features, but the point is encryption it provides

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