Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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Discord’s updated privacy approach is “teen-by-default,” the company said in an announcement today. This means that, starting in March, all users on Discord will have their accounts partially restricted to the experience you’d get if you were under the age of 13.
I'm fine with that. I don't need porn on Discord.
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The general comment and title is simply untrue. They will require verification in cases of known adult or censored content, and in NSFW channels and servers. "Regular" content and spaces are untouched.
That said, I give it 6-10 months before it's required for all users regardless of content access.
Wouldn't that significantly destroy their user base? Most servers I have seen it talked about the feeling seems to be not a fucking chance but we don't use this for porn anyway.
I would love to see a popular alternative appear from this.
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It does it well, it’s just clunky. It works perfectly fine, and I recommend it over discord ang day of the week. Except Tuesdays. Tuesdays I recommend IRC.
If it's clunky, then it does not do it well for most users. All features might even work well individually, but the user experience is very important too for less tech-savvy people.
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And said data will never be used for fake CSAM or a library for the powerful to handpick their next victims
Don't worry, it will only require us adults to give ID's.
They will only make porn of us, everything is fine then!
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I wonder if it'll function like Twitch where you can get tons of people banned all at once by getting them to say they're under 13.
That happened to me a long while ago. before all this.
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That's fine if that's your personal response. This still feels like a misdirected and ultimately useless response though.
This is a government-created problem. Are we expecting widespread boycotts of Discord to change the government's mind? Of course not.
If it's extremely bad for users, then users need to change their government. Yeah, yeah, I know the excuses for not doing that, they don't listen, we are all powerless, it is the way it is, yadda yadda. It's a lie. We are powerful, they want us feeling powerless so we can't challenge them. Fuck that, challenge them. Government exists to represent us, it can exist in perpetuity only with our active and ongoing consent and participation. If people in totalitarian countries can overthrow their governments, so can we, we don't have to do it overnight, we don't have to do it over this one single isolated issue, but we can at least start working against them, eroding the structures that support them. Fuck governments like these, figure out ways to twist their arm, make things more difficult for them, and eventually, if we keep at it, we'll get what we want. We hold the power here, not them. We decide what kind of society we want to live in. We need to stop abdicating our responsibilities as citizens and actively fight against this shit.
Good luck convincing the masses to follow your line of thinking.
People like us aren't the majority of the population. The only control we have is to either opt in or opt out of what other people are doing.
We are being dragged along by their decisions.
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That's fine, and I hate Discord's general situation too, and I can't wait for a properly federated self-hostable open source alternative to take off. But it just seems a bit knee-jerk or straw that broke the camel's back to throw Discord under the bus specifically for this. To be clear, you don't actually need to provide ID, you can either continue using a limited account (it's barely limited at all in any serious way unless you're using Discord for NSFW stuff) or you can attempt to validate your face with a camera instead, which supposedly happens completely on-device. Either one is a totally reasonable alternative.
Companies get away with nothing but a small fine that is far less than the money they make from breaking privacy laws, and you are still naive enough to trust things handed over to them is actually private when there is zero transparency on what is going on with their app to perform an independent audit?
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Would the best alternative still be something like Matrix/Element or is there something new/better out there?
The problem with these things is that it's really hard to convince others to move to a better platform.
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My discord account is about 10 years old. Do they assume I created it as a 6 year old? Account age alone should be enough to verify I'm an adult with reasonable certainty.
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Discord was always an overhyped crap.
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According to this article they just blocking access to adult channels and content. You may still use discord but not be able to view adult chat groups, pictures and other content if you haven't scanned your face or uploaded ID.
Seems fair to be honest. Children on Discord been exposed to adult content some which adults would be disgusted by. Not to count pedophilia en masse and seems to be uncontrollable. Discord was not supposed to be a tool for sharing porn anyway. Maybe it would bring some good into the situation.
Yep. This is how it starts.
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Maybe this bullshit will be the spark needed to move us all off Discord. It's fine for voice-chat in games, don't get me wrong, but I HATE how its replaced forums/wikis for so many games/mods/etc. Searching disparate Discord servers is like looking for a nonferrous straw-colored needle in a haystack.
I have just been using signal. Works fine.
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My discord account is about 10 years old. Do they assume I created it as a 6 year old? Account age alone should be enough to verify I'm an adult with reasonable certainty.
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Oh. Okay, stupids. Bye.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they got a massive leak for gov IDs last year? And they still pushing this bs?! Hello?
You are not wrong.
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Would the best alternative still be something like Matrix/Element or is there something new/better out there?
The problem with these things is that it's really hard to convince others to move to a better platform.
Tom from MySpace needs to have a second coming.
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They got scared when a full revolution started in discord channels.
Anyone have a FOSS with screen share / group service?
Are you talking about Iran? That happened over Discord? Is it possible Discord is being forced to do this by Don the Demented's admin? Might be banking on complying and then seuing for damages down the road.
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They got scared when a full revolution started in discord channels.
Anyone have a FOSS with screen share / group service?
I would also like to know if stoat offers screen sharing or if it’s just calls and video calls
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Five years? My, aren't we optimistic.
Within 5 years, I'd say.
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Are you talking about Iran? That happened over Discord? Is it possible Discord is being forced to do this by Don the Demented's admin? Might be banking on complying and then seuing for damages down the road.
Nepal or something wasn't it?
