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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
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Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default "teen-appropriate" experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

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[โ€“] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

... Steam is basically a family owned business it's literally the exact example of what a perfectly acceptable large business is.

And fuck I ain't here cause I know something wrong. The fuck you get that idea from. I'm here because reddit doesn't have a good app that's literally it. I would happily go back to reddit if i could have my old app back.

Lemmy has fuck all for communities, basically no users, and the majority of it is just regurgitated from reddit anyways. I could give less of a rats ass about the whole open source thing. It's neat and all from a novelty perspective.

But frankly the hard on for open source this self hosted that is a massive nothing burger. Closed or open sources. What ever is the easier and more convenient option wins full stop.

Lemmy won cause the apps were more convenient.

[โ€“] voracitude@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I ain't here cause I know something wrong

I'm here cause reddit doesn't have a good app

And they used to, didn't they? Can you remember what happened to those apps, and why? That's right, they stopped working, because Reddit closed off their API, which can't happen here.

So I guess you are here because you know that something is wrong with reddit, after all. You said so yourself.