Technology

Seriously, like, actually seriously, I want to believe that this time everyone will leave Discord, and not just a small group of weirdos like us who “care about privacy” and ended up on Lemmy.

EXTREMELY INVASIVE SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS ARE NOW PUT IN PLACE FOR you to have a better sense of community and meaningful communication <3

Age assurance is the foundation of this new experience and is designed to respect Discord users’ privacy and choice. Discord users can choose to use facial age estimation or submit a form of identification to its vendor partners, with more options coming in the future. Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age. Some users may be asked to use multiple methods if more information is needed to assign an age group.

Key privacy protections of Discord’s age-assurance approach include:

• On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.
• Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.
• Straightforward verification: In most cases, users complete the process once and their Discord experience adapts to their verified age group. Users may be asked to use multiple methods only when more information is needed to assign an age group.
• Private status: A user’s age verification status cannot be seen by other users. 

After completing a chosen method, users will receive confirmation via a direct message from Discord’s official account. A user’s assigned age group can also be viewed at any time in “My Account” settings. Users can always go to “My Account” settings to appeal their assigned age group by retrying the process. Discord prompts users to age-assure only within Discord and currently does not send emails or text messages about its age assurance process or results.

Not happy with the face-scanning either way. Gonna have a chat with some of my personal groups about how we might move forward.

Does Matrix have problems I'm not aware of as an alternative? Saw they have 115 million accounts compared to Discord's 500 million so its already well tested? Not a user of either service.

RIP Discord. Good riddance

Yeah that’s a hard no from me. Want me to prove my ID? I want you to prove that you’re not gonna store it. History suggests otherwise.

Not that I want to use your platform anyway.

At least all the pedos will finally leave the platform

Well FU Discord. Over my dead body

My group has been tinkering with matrix but the ecosystem is such a mess that I think we'll be going to xmpp-based solutions, and once the kinks are ironed out, migrating it to i2p

Not to go all conspiracy-nut, but it feels like the net (at least the social spaces) is decaying, and it feels intentional / coordinated.

that's a great excuse to finally delete my discord account

Thanks for the reminder to delete my account!

I'm just gonna do all the tricks the kids did last time we heard about this. I'm gonna use some 3d model game character and just scan that bozo in if I can

Has Discord itself already proven that it is >18?

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I'm leaving the moment it's implemented.

I set up a mumble server on my cloud computer, it isnt bad!

hardest part is going to be convincing people to switch over. it was so difficult to migrate people from Xbox and ps parties to discord, but it is what it is lol

Some options:

Use Steam groups, which has almost all the same core capabilities (voice chat, push to talk, image and other sharing, etc.)

Create a teamspeak server if you have the know-how.

Create or join a TeamSpeak server.

suddenly not regretting at all quitting this months ago!

didn’t they have a massive leak recently of age verification pictures lol