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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (www.theverge.com)
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Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

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[–] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been paying for nitro (for some reason). Yeah I'm dumb. But I just cancelled it, so I guess I'm getting smarter

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

They're banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it's insane.

Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?

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[–] shuva_meta@lemmy.today 6 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Revolt chat is amazing

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[–] timestatic@feddit.org 39 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Yeah.... No how about we just stop using Discord and move to something more decentralized like Matrix

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 113 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Time to use generative AI to make a fake picture... Might as well pollute their database if they make these demands.

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[–] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (22 children)

So, they WANT to render themselves obsolete?

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[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 day ago (27 children)

ill take my leave asap then, 10 years has been a pretty good sample of what capitalism does to a platform

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ok, rare to see such an explicit kind of Great Filter / Idiot Test play out at scale, but here we go!

Anybody who is still using Discord after it requires you to personally directly link your drivers liscense or w/e to it, well, they're fine with every government apparatus of any kind knowing everything they say and do on Discord.

Good luck to those glorious morons, truly, good luck.

You are going to need it.

Super, duper hope you're not queer or trans or neurodivergent.

... you... think the 23 concentration camps currently being built by ICE / FEMA are ... only for migrants?

Brown people?

Well you trust the current fascist regime a lot more than I do.

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[–] Baaron87@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (25 children)

To quote general Grevious:

“Time to abandon ship”

There’s plenty of other options out there. Discord has been enshitifying for a while now, so I don’t mind dropping it

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I trust the scammers who call me daily with my ID more than a Discord third party vendor. They just wanted a google play card. Discord wants personal info. This age of censorship is terrible. If it was about about protecting kids just get parents to use modern parental block controls.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The day where platforms enshittify so bad they implode can't come soon enough

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[–] KiloGex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Downloaded Root, exported my server. Just waiting for all my friends to transition over.

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[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do they seriously expect discord moderators' faces to fit into a picture not taken from like 15m?

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