Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.
Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.
Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.
Downloaded Root, exported my server. Just waiting for all my friends to transition over.
That’s a centralised platform. You should move to Stoat and Matrix instead.
I would really like to, but I don’t have the ability to host my own server and set all of that up. So for now, centralized it is.
You don’t have to. You can use someone elses instance, just as you are on Lemmy. If the instance you pick goes to shit then you can move to another one.
I’m going to have to look into this more. I was under the assumption that you needed to host your own server from all of the info I’d read.