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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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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Just move back to the flood plain every time your house gets swept away, rebuild on the side of the volcano every eruption, and keep moving to proprietary platforms every time one enshittifies. Right?

Wrong. You're here on the fediverse because you know that's wrong. We need an alternative, but right now they're all pretty tough to set up by ourselves. For example, I'm once again working on getting revolt/stoat running, and it's pain (probably mostly due to my environment, I might give up and put it on its own machine).

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 points 4 hours ago

I don't think that Valve has that game plan, as they have proven again and again for about 20 years now. Having no shareholders really keeps them grounded. But you're right, a completely FOSS solution that is easy to use would be preferable - but in the short term Steam communities might get an upswing.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

My game plan here is that I'm moving everyone I can to Stoat. It's not likely to go the corpo route any time soon. From there I plan on figuring out a matrix server and streamlining the process for my less dedicated friends the same way I did jellyfin.