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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 90 points 8 hours ago (15 children)

"I categorically cannot trust tech companies with that kind of personal data," wrote one frustrated user, with many hoping they might be able to convince Discord to do a U-turn with enough public pressure. Others went further. "What a great way to kill your community," added another longtime user, while some predicted "that’s game over for Discord" and remarked ruefully that "privacy on the internet is truly dead".

LOL. Just like Netflix price increases, or reddit third party apps thing, the protest will barely register in usage metrics and discord will carry on.

These companies have effectively infinite resources with which to test changes with user reference groups, model potential outcomes, and mitigate risks. It's pure hubris to suggest that you have a better understanding of Discord's user base than they do.

The vaaast majority of users will just do the video age test and never think about it again.

[–] zensanto@ttrpg.network 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I dunno about netflix, but at least the reddit debacle diverted a lot of users to the fediverse.

If we get a similar exodus from discord to matrix, that would work wonders for spreading the fediverse to others. Most of them still haven't even heard of it.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

A blip of users

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Thats not my point though.

At the time reddit closed their API to third parties loads of idiots were saying it was the end of reddit.

In reality reddit just sanitised their user base.

[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

If you call that sanitised...

[–] zensanto@ttrpg.network 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

In reality, reddit gave a userbase to a platform that previously had none.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au -5 points 3 hours ago

... and yet, that's not what im talking about.

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