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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
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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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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My community just setup a Matrix instance and we're migrating everyone over. Several already cancelled their subscription.

I actually ran into a colleague in a random room, who is also leaving Discord.

It's pretty nuts, there's a big exodus going on.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Any guides? Been looking at Element but that set up is intimidating.

[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago) (1 children)

Are you self hosting? I just set up an instance today and it was extremely easy following the instructions for the ESS Community edition on github.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

I was going to run it on an old gaming PC i been using for piHole. I was thinking a VM as I couldn't find a premade container and don't want public stuff running on the machine directly. I was still trying to work my way though reading the docs but got hung up on understanding Kubernetes before starting the setup. I also got sick of fighting Virtual Machine Manager pool location permissions last night.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 minutes ago

If you plan on federating, it can end up being pretty resource heavy, so consider either not federating or planning ahead.