Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

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• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  R.I.P. Discord 2026

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rest in piss Discord. Fucking walled garden bullshit.

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yes

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• Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ha. Discord is about to lose me with this spying shit.

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• popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This sucks ass and even worse that there isn’t a competitor that’s anywhere near Discord’s level yet. And no, Matrix isn’t a discord competitor.

  FWIW the title is wrong, they won’t require age verification for everyone, you just won’t be able to access 18+ servers and see porn unless you’re verified. And according to Discord the verification videos stay on-device and never gets sent to servers. If this is true then at least it’s better than the privacy nightmare of other platforms…

  This was already launched last year for the UK and Australia, and now it’s going global.

  Screw you for pushing this, UK and Australia.

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  • cravl@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, there are certainly options that offer nearly the same level of functionality (or at least, discounting the features most people don’t use), but none that are anywhere close as easy to set up.

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• eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The actual post: https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

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• Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age<

  Quick make sure you all have chat histories talking about the weather with responses like “we needed the rain”, discussions about contemporary jazz, and sharing images and memes of common homeowner woes. Be as Gen X as possible such as talking about how you were outside until sun down as a kid but then telling recent stories about how you called the cops on kids skateboarding in the street outside your home. Anything to throw off the inference model.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Calling cops on kids is boomer shit, don’t put that on us

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    • Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Haha. Sorry bud

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• michael@piefed.chrisco.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So other than matrix, is there any other open source system that people recommend?

  Ive had a heck of a time with matrix for years. Im glad it exists, but its just not what I like to use. The signup process + logging in system is much too complex for a normal user.

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  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    stoat.chat is ok

    github.com/stoatchat/

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about the sign-up process is too complex?

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  "social media is toxic ban it for young people you aren’t seriously suggesting social media isn’t like cigarettes for kids - they said as the lock turned

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• TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So does .zip have a matrix server to sign up with? Cuz…. Looks like matrix is gonna happen

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• DGen@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ah. No worries kids trying to get around it sending their faces to a non disclosed age verification service..

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Time to extend my tailnet 

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• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it’s a giant right wing terrorist honeypot so I’m ok with that

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  • brillotti@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s on you for joining sus groups.

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