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Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access (discord.com)
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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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    [–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

    Sometimes the only way thru is shitty. And those devs might have to learn the hard way not to overcentralize- or to not use a damn chat software for what is way more suited to forums.

    [–] Dojan@pawb.social 15 points 8 hours ago

    I’ve been complaining about this for years. Hope we’re finally starting to see the end of it.