Leading messaging platform Discord has enabled end-to-end encrypted voice and video messaging for all users. With end-to-end encryption, Discord users can now communicate privately without anyone hearing their calls, even on Discord.
This is a major privacy victory for the community's hundreds of millions of users, coming on the heels of social media giant Meta discontinuing Instagram's end-to-end encrypted messaging feature earlier this year. TikTok also said it would no longer encrypt user messages end-to-end after becoming a U.S. company.
Discord will launch end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling capabilities in 2024 and rolled out the feature to all users on Monday. You don't need to do anything.
“End-to-end encryption is now standard for all voice and video calls on Discord, except for stage channels. No opt-in is required,” Mark Smith, Discord's vice president of core technology, said in a blog post.