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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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[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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 2 points 2 hours 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 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

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

What's the federation like? Haven't decided on it yet. Realistically I may convince 10ish people to join so I'm not sure it be worth the hassle.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to say that you can't/shouldn't federate with others. You don't need to federate everything, all channels, etc, nor should you IMO. I found out really quickly that the small server I had set aside for it was not up to the task when I decided to sync up the matrix.org main channels. You need lots of ram, FAST storage, and a good internet connection at bare minimum.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh man, I think I just need Synapse and not the full ESS suite. May have been making this harder than I needed.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If you just need a chat server for your and some friends and family, that is almost certainly will work for you.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Nice. I was feeling way over my head with ESS. Thanks!

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

Sure, no problem. I'm sure you'll get a basic server up and running, it isn't too bad.