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Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access (discord.com)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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    • Beginning with a phased global rollout to new and existing users in early March, users may be required to engage in an age-verification process to change certain settings or access sensitive content. This includes age-restricted channels, servers, or commands and select message requests.

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    [–] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    What is the free and open source alternative?

    [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 hours ago

    There's Mumble for voice, text and images. The server is self hosted and there is no chat history so it's private. It uses Opus so the audio quality is very good without using a lot of bandwidth. For gaming, it supports positional audio and a HUD that shows who is talking.

    For the projects using Discord for support, they should move to a forum.

    [–] Beep@lemmus.org 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    Stoat, Formerly known as Revolt.

    [–] RalfWausE@feddit.org 5 points 11 hours ago

    Its IRC, it works, there is already a very mature ecosystem