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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

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[–] xvat7@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

LOL. Deleted my Discord.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Ok, rare to see such an explicit kind of Great Filter / Idiot Test play out at scale, but here we go!

Anybody who is still using Discord after it requires you to personally directly link your drivers liscense or w/e to it, well, they're fine with every government apparatus of any kind knowing everything they say and do on Discord.

Good luck to those glorious morons, truly, good luck.

You are going to need it.

Super, duper hope you're not queer or trans or neurodivergent.

... you... think the 23 concentration camps currently being built by ICE / FEMA are ... only for migrants?

Brown people?

Well you trust the current fascist regime a lot more than I do.

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[–] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been paying for nitro (for some reason). Yeah I'm dumb. But I just cancelled it, so I guess I'm getting smarter

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (7 children)

They're banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it's insane.

Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Well, fuck that shit

[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do they seriously expect discord moderators' faces to fit into a picture not taken from like 15m?

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I trust the scammers who call me daily with my ID more than a Discord third party vendor. They just wanted a google play card. Discord wants personal info. This age of censorship is terrible. If it was about about protecting kids just get parents to use modern parental block controls.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The day where platforms enshittify so bad they implode can't come soon enough

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[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does anyone know for any self-hosted available with voicechat?

Is Matrix good?

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Stoat it is then.

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago (25 children)

keep forgetting they renamed revolt to stoat. dumb lawsuit.

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