Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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That's overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it's irrecoverable.
What's dd?
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Discord's own press release says they will restrict new accounts.
That's already bad enough, there's no need to make it look even worse.
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If the pushback on social media doesn't get Discord to drop these plans, then I'll just have to delete the app.
Not caving to another app asking for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) only for this same data to be leaked months to years later.
Society will do everything to protect children aside from making better parents.
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Discord was always an overhyped crap.
Not really. At the beginning it was amazing. It took 0 resources to run while gaming and the call quality was miles ahead, nevermind the flexibility around servers and what you could do with them.
Then, as all things, it turned to shit once ot gained market share.
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It also includes other functions that is not NSFW. Nothing that I personally care about but might be a deal breaker for bigger communities.
Discord breaks down the restrictions as follows:
- Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting.
- Age-gated Spaces: – Only users who are age-assured as adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands.
- Message Request Inbox: Direct messages from people a user may not know are routed to a separate inbox by default, and access to modify this setting is limited to age-assured adult users.
- Friend Request Alerts: People will receive warning prompts for friend requests from users they may not know.
- Stage Restrictions: Only age-assured adults may speak on stage in servers.
What are "stage in servers"?
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Remember to review bomb it immediately once this drops
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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.
Back in the day before Discord, people used Teamspeak, not sure if it is still around, tho.
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Tom from MySpace needs to have a second coming.
He'd need to come up with something new. MySpace was sold some years ago.
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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.
Then they will decide that links to some news stories aret appropriate for kids. No more pesky videos of ICE executing people in the street.
When do social media companies actually do anything to protect kids??
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IRC protocol is audio capable.
welp there ya go! problem solved.
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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.
Except "for the children" as argument to give up privacy never actually works.
Kids will find porn elsewhere, on shadier sites with even less moderators looking out for them. This has been true since the first dirty magazine in the woods has been found. The solution isn't banning them, it's educating them to treat it in a proper way. But that ofc takes effort and doesn't let policy makers villify people.
Meanwhile the adults have to give up their privacy for no real effect. Or the porn makers just move to a platform without PII and we can repeat this dance again in a couple of years.
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What's dd?
A tool, primarily within Linux, that can overwrite disks. I've never seen it recommended for data deletion, but I guess it makes sense.
It stands for "disk to disk" and is usually used for things like writing ISOs.
However,
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What are "stage in servers"?
My client apparently no longer allows editing or deleting, but please disregard this comment.
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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.
Legally, they can't be sure you didn't sell the account, even if the email address is the same.
Not defending the policy here, it's bullshit. But I'm simply pointing out that they have excuses to beat any logic you throw at them. Logic has nothing to do with it, so it can't be beaten by logic either.
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Except "for the children" as argument to give up privacy never actually works.
Kids will find porn elsewhere, on shadier sites with even less moderators looking out for them. This has been true since the first dirty magazine in the woods has been found. The solution isn't banning them, it's educating them to treat it in a proper way. But that ofc takes effort and doesn't let policy makers villify people.
Meanwhile the adults have to give up their privacy for no real effect. Or the porn makers just move to a platform without PII and we can repeat this dance again in a couple of years.
By your logic, we might also remove "Are you 18+?" questions from mainstream porn sites, cause children might not lie and go to a shadier site where it will not ask for their age.
Man. I am not even sure if Discord is better than some shady porn sites. Cause unless you are from another galaxy, you probably heard not so "child friendly" stories about what children been exposed on some lesser known discord channels. Some of the times the content is something you'd struggle to find in open web.
In any case, children would find explicit content anywhere else if they want to. So there is no particular reason to be afraid of ID verification since it doesn't necessary change that fact.
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I only use the platform to manage my dodgy IPTV subscription. Presumably they'll be ditching Discord as well once they realise that they need to provide ID.
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By your logic, we might also remove "Are you 18+?" questions from mainstream porn sites, cause children might not lie and go to a shadier site where it will not ask for their age.
Man. I am not even sure if Discord is better than some shady porn sites. Cause unless you are from another galaxy, you probably heard not so "child friendly" stories about what children been exposed on some lesser known discord channels. Some of the times the content is something you'd struggle to find in open web.
In any case, children would find explicit content anywhere else if they want to. So there is no particular reason to be afraid of ID verification since it doesn't necessary change that fact.
I'm fine with the 18+ question because it atleast explicitly requires people to know they're entering that site. You can't argue kids are exposed by accident if they click "Enter".
As for ID verification, I'm against it for my own privacy, if nothing else changes for kids, then what is the argument to have it for adults? (Besides authoritarian control)
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Legally, they can't be sure you didn't sell the account, even if the email address is the same.
Not defending the policy here, it's bullshit. But I'm simply pointing out that they have excuses to beat any logic you throw at them. Logic has nothing to do with it, so it can't be beaten by logic either.
Selling accounts is against the TOS, surely they can’t be liable if that’s the case.
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They won't even send a verification email to my gmail account so I can sign up.
They were suffering with email issues due to the "hug of death" effect, try again now maybe it'll work
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I'm fine with the 18+ question because it atleast explicitly requires people to know they're entering that site. You can't argue kids are exposed by accident if they click "Enter".
As for ID verification, I'm against it for my own privacy, if nothing else changes for kids, then what is the argument to have it for adults? (Besides authoritarian control)
Age verification is not mandatory. Unless you want to browse NSFW content. You can ignore age verification and keep browsing adult content somewhere else.
I believe many would not verify themselves, groups that do adult content would lose majority of user base. So they would move somewhere else where I assume their user base would follow.
