So I have some people who want to get me into a discord chat. Is there a simple way to bridge it to matrix? I have my own matrix server but I don't have a discord account. Is it possible to create a bridge without violating privacy?
I don't want to create an account if I don't have to
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CluckN@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
I usually click on it
Platform27@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 2y
Yeah, you can’t really use a Matrix account/server, to connect to Discord. You could use a bot, but even then, it would require a Discord account.
I’d advise you to make an account, using an aliasing service. Then interact with Discord through the browser, NOT the client.
Rose@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
I just have it pinned in the browser. Not installing the app means they get less to collect.
ReversedCookie@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y
macallik@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
Webcord is an alternative front-end solution that is more privacy-orientated.
LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Check out Armcord 👍
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com · 3 pts · 2y
It is possible to use Discord from the browser without necessarily making an account, but many big servers have restrictive measures that prevent users without a verified email addreds (or even a verified phone number, in the strictest of cases) to access. This will depend on your friends' setup.
I don't know if it's possible to bridge Discord to Matrix, but I can tell you that it's got a pretty prolific API for building bots and integrations, so someone might have already built something of that kind. Alternative clients are tecnically against the TOS (afaik) but I know of people who have built large projects without ever getting any complaints from the company.
BitSound@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
It's possible and I've done it, but you have to manually bridge each room, and keep the bridges in sync if you ever add/remove channels. There's a github issue for bridging a discord server as a space in matrix that would do that automatically, but there hasn't really been any activity on it:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord/issues/738
gamey@feddit.rocks · 3 pts · 2y
There is a Matrix bridge bot for Discord but the server owner has to set that up on the Discord and Matrix side first
Gargari@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Vendetta on mobile Webcord on PC
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2y
I know you can use webhooks to post messages without an a separate account, so a server owner could set it up for you, but I don't know that you can read messages that way.
Do any of your other bridges to systems that have accounts allow you to chat without an account?
The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org · -15 pts · 2y
What has discord done to you in the past?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y
Its proprietary and the target of US monitoring
gamey@feddit.rocks · 6 pts · 2y
Stolen my data and sharex it around? Discord is one of the worse privacy nightmares under all chat apps and for some reason people don't get it...
The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org · -13 pts · 2y
Do you have some kind of proof of this massive accusation?
gamey@feddit.rocks · 9 pts · 2y
I actually read their privacy policy, that's a great staeting point, well and their lack of E2E encryption is a exception for chat apps nowdays too!
The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org · -8 pts · 2y
What does their privacy policy say then?
biscuits@lemmy.sdfeu.org · 1 pts · 2y
https://www.tosdr.org/en/service/discord
The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 2y
Any one of things specifically? Those seem to make sense if you have ever used a platform line discord