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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (www.theverge.com)

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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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[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] emokidforever@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A ton of game companies (especially indies) have moved bug reports and patch notes over to discord. Suggesting something on the steam forums often gets you redirected to their discord server. And it's not just gaming companies. I've got several pieces of software that the easiest way to find out about betas and updates are to use their discord server. It feels fairly unavoidable if you want to stay informed.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

That is pretty unfortunate! Crazy how discord managed to corner the internet like that in a few years.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Man I miss when we had real forums. I used to go on nasioc for Subaru info now everybody is on FB pages. I have not yet found a need for downloading discord but I'm sure I'm bound to run into it eventually...

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] Sv443@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Glad you're willing to share her with all of us