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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 1 month ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Doom@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I abandoned WhatsApp for Discord after meta got its greedy hooks into it. Do they think people won't just make a new account elsewhere and move on? Millennials have done it every two years ever since MySpace imploded after Fox News' Rupert Murdoch bought it. We have been conditioned to let our accounts go.

(Also text messaging, group chats, phone calls, and video calls are things that come standard on smartphones without need of an app. Texting stupid memes to everyone I know has never been easier. Maybe it's my age, but everyone I regularly talk to on discord is also in my phone. Oh noes, I'll have to "text" instead of "chat." The horror.)

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate SMS and vastly prefer a real chat platform, in the US it's messenger/insta and in EU and much of Asia it's Whatsapp, line in Japan, kkaotalk in Korea, WeChat/weixin for China, and so on. Discord never crossed over to regular people in my experience for the most part (is the hot girl you met on it?).

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[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How did you use Discord in place of WhatsApp? I found Discord incredibly slow to start up, buggy as hell and a pain in the ass to even jump to specific chats quickly in the UI and that was before they made it worse with the new UI.

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[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Discord is SLAMMED, I say!

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is the part, young-but-becoming-wise friends, where the company doesn't give a shit about you and starts to prey on children, who, for a while, become very lucrative.

The chances of discord pushing ahead anyway, even with this very public outcry, is still 50/50.

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[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone pile into matrix and the element client. Got to make it more popular

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 10 points 1 month ago

I would unironically sooner become an actual hermit and never socialize again than give these cretins my ID or even trust that they'll delete an age verification photo. Knowing Discord? yeah, no, absolutely fucking not

[–] Sheldan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I am just not going to participate in that verification shit, and, for now, I will just not see that stuff anymore.

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This sucks. Fully leaving Discord will be hard for me. One server is functioning as a memorial to my Clan leader who died of cancer.

Maybe I need to research a method of archiving or migrating the data I have access to.

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[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Exodus to another discord-clone. Great.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Im currently at the point where I have such a presence on Matrix that I could genuinely delete my discord account

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Already looking into alternatives. My friends and I are going to switch asap. They aren't that tech savvy, so it's pretty much up to me to find a good alternative and teach them how to use it. I don't mind tho lol

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