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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 10 hours ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default "teen-appropriate" experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

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[–] CardboardVictim@piefed.social 32 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

The problem is finding a good alternative immediately. I don't mind to hop and check out multiple services, but some of my friends wants to just install one thing and be done.

My checklist is not too much either, but for some reason video calling is not something included with the lot of them.

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 14 points 10 hours ago

Self-hosting a matrix instance might be an okay alternative. And because its decentralized its not really possible for it to have top-down age verification imposed on it, if it ever does get popular

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, but if accounts are made on mumble for example, the migration will happen there quicker. Then if that doesn't suit many, others are an option. I'm guessing whichever platform benefits from this will happily make any changes that are currently missing.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 hours ago

We really gotta get started on building that

We really should have been already but now's good too