How to access FreeBSD Discord Server?

[PMc]

You should have mentioned this in the OP. Context is key in trouble solving. And not started with waving accusations.

Really? Why so?

I mean... if you never used Steam, never installed it, yet suddenly followed a link towards a community then stuff could happen.

I don't know what "Steam" is. And I did use FreeBSD before, followed a link on the official FreeBSD website, using a regular FreeBSD installation with a browser from ports. And also I did use that "discord" before, for the Que software which run their bugtracker on the discord.
So which unusual matters should I have mentioned in the OP (as I can see none)?

 

[PMc]

If I remember correctly, Discord uses Cloudflare for their robots/AI defense. And from my experience, "sometimes" (read: pretty often) Cloudflare's captcha has problems to work correctly in anything than Chrome (even Chromium). If the invitation's links don't work for you, due to endless captcha's loop, try:

Cloudflare works appropriately well here, with firefox. They usually send one captcha per day, and then on any other site remember me and immediately accept.

Google however distributes vast accusations against me that I had damaged their site (but never talked to me directly about the issue), send dozens of captchas (clearly they need them for their AI development) and has banned me completely from many of their services.
But then, as far as I know, discord is not owned by Google, or is it?

 

[Espionage724]

Does FreeBSD have a Revolt instance? https://revolt.chat/

I saw some Linux distros have community-created channels on the main instances, and apparently it can be self-hosted.

 

[astyle]

Does FreeBSD have a Revolt instance? https://revolt.chat/

I saw some Linux distros have community-created channels on the main instances, and apparently it can be self-hosted.

Try Mastodon, maybe?

 

[Espionage724]

Try Mastodon, maybe?

In-general, nah I'd sooner self-host Friendica on an easier PHP stack

Community-wise, Revolt sound better than Discord's centralized wall-garden, and if there was enough overall interest might be cool for FreeBSD to host their own instance. I'd join it

I'm not sure if Revolt with their hosting handles email verification/2FA differently than Discord.

 

[astyle]

In-general, nah I'd sooner self-host Friendica on an easier PHP stack

Community-wise, Revolt sound better than Discord's centralized wall-garden, and if there was enough overall interest might be cool for FreeBSD to host their own instance. I'd join it

I'm not sure if Revolt with their hosting handles email verification/2FA differently than Discord.

I tried FreeBSD's Discord - and got banned for calling out someone who was not only uninformed about how Open Source works, not only had a very cavalier attitude about that, but also tried to use the voice chat section to talk about completely irrelevant topics like how refugees are good for the economy - even though the kid's earlier comments betrayed just how uninformed he was even on that.

Worst part is, contacting the FreeBSD Discord server admin to even make a case that it was an unfair ban is a huge pain.

 

[thindil]

Cloudflare works appropriately well here, with firefox. They usually send one captcha per day, and then on any other site remember me and immediately accept.

Sometimes I have exactly opposite experience. Very similar to your on Discord. An endless loop of the captcha. Usually changing User-Agent helps me. The endless loop is a signal that either it can't get some information about your browser/system (maybe some privacy-focused plugins or settings prevent it?) or we are suspicious for them, perhaps due to lack of information about browser/system.

But then, as far as I know, discord is not owned by Google, or is it?

It isn't, but it doesn't prevent them from use catpcha from Google. Maybe they use it?

 

[Espionage724]

An endless loop of the captcha.

Facebook wants to play that game every time I try to log-in; I go back and hit Log-in again a couple times until it decides to stop presenting captcha and go to 2FA entry

I have browser cookies deleted on browser close, but auto-fill user/pass so most websites are a single-click sign back in. Discord was particularly annoying with their new location thing somewhere that I had to enable 2FA. Even with TOTP 2FA Discord insists on having a phone number attached (I'm really not a fan of everyone using this for communities nowadays), but I have that on some free VOIP number.

Cloudflare captcha on Firefox used to be less-annoying if DoH was set to one of Cloudflare's addresses, but as of lately that's not reliable (I use 1111 malware block DoH and have to manually check the box for Cloudflare verification after their little spinner/verify check; usually their spinner thing would just pass)