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.
I hope the trick with photo modes in games still works. If not I will be leaving discord despite many good friends and communities I have on it.
Fucking seriously? One of the last places I still have a fucking community and now I’m going to get kicked from it cause corporate assholes can’t learn to respect fucking privacy?
The German passport (and I’m sure many others) has a NFC chip in it and you can use it with an open source app to securely prove your identity online. In cases like this, the only information pulled from your ID would be “over 18” or “not over 18”.
It’s one of the few things my government did right in the digital space. And yet almost nobody in the private sector uses this. I’m tired of being asked to upload a photo of my ID for age verification.
Of course they don’t use it. They want your data, not just your age. As long as the government does not make using ID this way for age verification mandatory*, companies will continue to use processes that give them the most data that they can sell.
*: As in not making verification mandatory but if a company wants to do it they must to it this way
Already migrated to self hosted IRC to get away from Discord and this proves that it was the right choice
My bet is this is a move by Palintir
for palinitir, it seems most governments in the west want sto surveillance, anti-right criticism or any movements now.
…because right wing parties will hate all the surveillance systems their opponents put in place when they take over.
Revolt chat is amazing
Discord leaked my email. How do I know it was Discord? Because that email address was specifically for Discord. Anyways, now that email is full of spam. Anyways anyways, no way I am letting them leak my face
Fediverse, assemble!
Downloaded Root, exported my server. Just waiting for all my friends to transition over.
LOL. Deleted my Discord.
Welp that sucks time to find a new platform
Stoat is the most discordlike, Matrix is the most privacy-focused
I’ve been trying so hard to work with Matrix. Then once you get it going everything is dead.
I’ve been using it exclusively (later along with self-hosted Jitsi) since 2017.
There’s tens of millions of messages, doing just fine.
That changes if people like you start using it.
Kinda like Lemmy.
Stoat seems pretty good, but it’s still a bit buggy. It kept disconnecting and reconnecting, but I logged out and then back in again and that fixed it.
Matrix! Unredacted.org is a great place for newcomers to host their first server.
First time I’ve heard of Unredacted. Do they have somewhere to show their legibility?
Legitimacy?
I could smell the enshitification tidal wave coming yet I doubt my friends will migrate to anything else.
I’ve been paying for nitro (for some reason). Yeah I’m dumb. But I just cancelled it, so I guess I’m getting smarter
They’re banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it’s insane.
Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?
Fuck discord. Hope some people leave over this.
bunch of friends and I just stood up a matrix room on a friend’s server and moved over there. fuck discord
