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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 12 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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[–] errer@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Are there any viable alternatives? Last I looked they all kinda sucked

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I wanna start by saying I'm not a power user, I only use discord as a glorified chat manager for my immediate friends. That said, Stoat is everything I like about discord with a nicer ui and a public server seach function. I made an account when discord started ads and I honestly feel like it's a little further than Lemmy was when I came here from reddit.

Right now sign up is slow because of the huge influx of users. That said, the team is handling it well and being very transparent about it which is refreshing.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I love Stoat's UI but video streaming is an absolute must for My use case and last I checked they said it wasn't a priority

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Ahh that's fair.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I've been hearing good things about https://spacebar.chat/. Stoat (formerly Revolt) is out there as well. Matrix is another possibility, but it's more for individual channels rather than whole servers, so doesn't fit some use cases.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Does it have video streaming yet?

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 6 hours ago

Sounds like it's experimental at the moment:

Voice/Video when?

Currently there is experimental voice/video WebRTC support in Spacebar. UDP connections are not currently supported.

This is a very difficult feature to get working, especially given that we must implement it the exact same way as Discord.com for client compatibility, so if you find any bugs please open an issue in Spacebar server.

We would also be incredibly thankful for any assistance.

https://docs.spacebar.chat/faq/

So might not be ready for primetime. Voice is pretty critical to how I often use Discord. Video less so, but still important.