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.
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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.
Revolt chat is amazing
Fediverse, assemble!
Downloaded Root, exported my server. Just waiting for all my friends to transition over.
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
LOL. Deleted my Discord.
I could smell the enshitification tidal wave coming yet I doubt my friends will migrate to anything else.
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.
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?
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?
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
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
Its been over five years since I have logged into discord. Its shit.
Tired of so many discussions being locked away in Discord, so hopefully they ramp this up and require identification to do anything so everyone will move to a more open platform.
Discord and github are the two platforms barely anyone dares to speak about. The Foss community barely mentions the usage of such platforms, despite nearly all of projects use discord as the support line.
It is really such a shame, since those projects make a significant contribution to open source software in one area. but just shits itself in the other.
At least public githubs aren’t difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.
Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.
Codeberg ftw!
Free software contributors I hang out with do mention the likes of irc, matrix, codeberg, and activitypub’ising git a lot.
No time to waste mentioning inferior software that’s abusive.
Let alone use it.
What discussions happen on discord? I’m late 20s and play video games regularly and I have never used it. Thought it was where people streamed themselves playing video games or selling bathwater or whatever. Back in the day my home boys and I used to chat on teamspeak while gaming, but who has time for that shit anymore? My gaming is almost all single player or with the wifey 3 feet to my left lol.
The cybersecurity certification companies use discord for support exclusively, and no you can’t use a different company because they are the ones the market recognizes. Offsec, Altered Security, for example.
What discussions happen on discord?
You ever have an issue with anything and you find the answer on some random reddit discussion that ends up in your search results when you’re looking around?
Discord isn’t really like the older methods of chatting, where people used platforms to chat for the sake of chatting. Entire communities from forums decided to just upend everything and move into discord. Niche software and other files are often shared among discord communities, or assistance for said files and programs is offered only through specific discord communities.
The platform is still better than anything we had back in the day, it’s just that for some reason people have decided that everything needs to be stored in there.
Anyway, I don’t see much changing. People will probably attempt to take this culture onto whatever new platform they move onto.
