Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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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.
I am also leaving discord, I hated it and the people who use it a lot, but used it to connect to family members. I will find other ways.
This is the same exact cycle I went through with social media, which I also left entirely. I stopped browsing a lot of sites I used to, I took most of my personal info off the internet, and ended a lot of subscriptions.
The internet lately is feeling more and more like making end-of-life plans.
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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.
They will have some kind of nebulously described "thing" that will monitor your browsing and chatting habits on discord and use that to decide your "implicit age" and I wish any of that was a joke or rumor.
They won't just ask for your face and ID, they are also admitting that AI or something is going to be literally watching you at all times to "determine your age."
Tell me again how we're protecting kids? Where them Epstein prosecutions at? We save any kids yet? How about now?
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Discord was always an overhyped crap.
it was useful when it was new and there were no alternatives as easy to use.
Now it feels like commercialized app slop that wishes it was actual social media.
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You run a Discord server for work? I thought my company using Google was crazy.
There are lots and lots of companies that use discord the same way they use facebook, just a place to promote and gather "feedback" and such. They likely mean they ran the official company server, not that they use discord to chat between teams.
Although I've done that before too.
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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.
I am never going to convince my younger family members to change platform, they literally keep discord on 24/7 with their friends and SO's and keep lobbies open around the clock to wander in and play games and stream and thrive in the social space.
It's horrifically un-secure and I hate so much about the whole thing from a safety standpoint.
I will likely kill my main account and delete all my personal data and messages, for whatever good that will do, and just make a dummy account to received messages and say hi to family. Same as I did with facebook and other social media.
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Tom from MySpace needs to have a second coming.
Dark Tom needs to rise to kick the internet's ass and create a new, old internet that has no algorithms or bots.
I guess we would need some way to confirm the users aren't AI or bad actors so we would need to use kind of face reco- oh, I see. We're trapped in hell.
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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?
One of many massive security leaks!
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Whatever you do - don't use telegram.
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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.
“Regular” content and spaces are untouched.
They are also rolling out something like an AI that monitors your chatting and browsing habits that can determine your "implicit age" as well, this isn't exactly shocking, but it's gross how it's being promoted as a handy feature.
The entire thing is a state surveillance project and yes, they are working on desensitizing the population to having no privacy or personal lives.
Sure hope our government doesn't collapse to a fascist oligarchy or authoritarian surveillance state, sure could bite us all in the ass when the armed deathsquads get ahold of both our identifications, faces and our ideology and the names and faces of all our friends and family members.
Or would be a shame if all the people who use discord to communicate with other marginalized people suddenly had all their personal information revealed to friends, family and schools, including what chat channels and servers they visit, what games they play, who their friends are and so on.
Oh well, I'm sure the company and the government will be completely fair and transparent about all of our online identities.
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Whatever you do - don't use telegram.
Would you be willing to elaborate more on this topic?
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You're blatantly ignoring how these laws are actually implemented and assessing them instead by taking the lies of their authors at face value.
Note my final comment. I understand the reality.
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Are you one of those pornographic people? Large swathes of the population are considered intrinsically pornographic by the authors of these laws. Queer people are walking talking pornography simply for existing. Also most politics and any news dealing with violent events is pornographic.
Have you ever shared a story about police brutality? You are a pornographer.
I'm fine with not talking about police brutality on discord. I used it when I was contributing to some open source projects and no one talked about gender or politics there. People with different needs should probably switch.
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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.
A popular alternative only arises if you migrate to it before it's popular. There are multiple platforms already available that resemble discord already
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I'm fine with not talking about police brutality on discord. I used it when I was contributing to some open source projects and no one talked about gender or politics there. People with different needs should probably switch.
Sorry. Open source offends corporate interests and is therefore pornographic. You're a pornographer.
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Hey! Are you okay?
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You run a Discord server for work? I thought my company using Google was crazy.
When your job has communities that spring up around it, you either get there first, where you can work with the users and help steer, or just sheepishly join in the community efforts.
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One of many massive security leaks!
This surely is different, right? I'm sure they learned from last time
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There are lots and lots of companies that use discord the same way they use facebook, just a place to promote and gather "feedback" and such. They likely mean they ran the official company server, not that they use discord to chat between teams.
Although I've done that before too.
we fall back to IRC
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Good I'm still on Teamspeak 2
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This surely is different, right? I'm sure they learned from last time
I'm sure they're very sowwy and have learned their lesson and your face and ID and personal, private browsing habits will be perfectly secure, and even the AI bot that will "monitor your habits to decide your implicit age" will be very quiet with all your sensitive personal details and not give it to anyone even if they ask very nicely for it.
