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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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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 102 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Americans- If you're thinking "this isn't so bad" please consider that all it takes is a teeny tiny, insignificant api added to the back end with absolutely no notice to users and suddenly the DHS has a database of dissenters, with cross-referenced IDs, photos of faces, chat history, link share history, raw uploaded photos, and approximate locations.

Say no to this. If you need a temporary alternative that's quick to get going, create a signal group chat with your friends.

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 2 points 8 minutes ago

Forget DHS or other government agencies, these companies have been shown to be untrustworthy stewards of our data from regular hackers.

I get that discord is used to groom kids and there is a very real risk to allowing children to use it unsupervised, but that means kids devices are the ones that need to be locked down, not the rest of the world.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 37 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

☝️🤓 Discord said they're going to delete the data!

Buster from Arthur saying "You really think someone would do that, just go on the Internet and tell lies?

noteThe "someone" is referring to Discord, not you.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I dig your Netscape avatar

Discord said they’re going to delete the data!

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 20 minutes ago

That joke is NSFW, please present facial verification and ID now or you will be banned and reported to the authorities!

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What if they say it's lemonade instead?

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

You know what that made me think of?
https://youtu.be/UWQoK506xkQ

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Pain fucking ass but deleted my Discord account. Sure wish had a decent alternative. I see a lot of suggestions just don't which to try? Any that work great with Linux Debian?

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Do the people you talk with use Signal?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 hours ago

They're already doing it to access the social security website.