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Badalich also says after the October data breach, Discord “immediately stopped doing any sort of age verification flows with that vendor” and is now using a different third-party vendor.
Oh thanks, it's fixed
The ID is immediately deleted. We do not keep any information around like your name, the city that you live in, if you used a birth certificate or something else, any of that information.
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Oh yeah it’s totally deleted from that one server! Of course all information is kept for “quality and training purposes” and to hand over to palantir and whoever is willing to pay.
Now what sort of unethical corporate greed machine would do that?
. . . All of them?
Oh. Oh dear.
Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally
So in other words, if you only use Discord as a messaging app and for small servers between friends, this won't affect you?
I honestly have no idea why Discord started trying to push itself as some normal social media like Facebook, and why people started treating it as such. Discord was a glorified telephone line with gifs and web links. I don't need some manufactured sense of "community" among thousands of people who happen to watch the same YouTuber as me.
Discord is a vocal opponent of the laws requiring this stuff and helps the legal fights trying to stop this from becoming mandatory by law. My impression is they are doing what they think they legally have to in a growing number of countries and states.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3meiroz7b322w
" Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to. "
None of the companies pulling this shit are offering a good enough product to be worth it.
Tired of so many discussions being locked away in Discord, so hopefully they ramp this up and require identification to do anything so everyone will move to a more open platform.
Discord and github are the two platforms barely anyone dares to speak about. The Foss community barely mentions the usage of such platforms, despite nearly all of projects use discord as the support line.
It is really such a shame, since those projects make a significant contribution to open source software in one area. but just shits itself in the other.
At least public githubs aren't difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.
Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.
I hope the trick with photo modes in games still works. If not I will be leaving discord despite many good friends and communities I have on it.
The day an app/service (be it Discord or anything else) asks me to upload my ID, is the day my account gets deleted.
I prefer Discworld.
Luckily i never understood what discord was for, so i never joined. But yet another company that will crash and burn because they hate consumer privacy.
It’s for online communities, group chats, and audio/video calls with streaming built-in. It’s really very good and incredibly easy to learn how to use, but recently it’s been pulling some increasingly concerning shit. Started simple and clean, then started adding shit for who knows why.
In this case it’s to please the anti-porn companies and places like the UK.
Time to use generative AI to make a fake picture... Might as well pollute their database if they make these demands.
Yeah.... No how about we just stop using Discord and move to something more decentralized like Matrix
Already migrated to self hosted IRC to get away from Discord and this proves that it was the right choice
I could smell the enshitification tidal wave coming yet I doubt my friends will migrate to anything else.
ill take my leave asap then, 10 years has been a pretty good sample of what capitalism does to a platform
