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.
The obvious solution here is for DEVICE manufacturers to add verification steps in the OS for parents to configure.
Obvious
How is this not worse?
Rather than a hypothetical advertising ID assigned at the browser. We now have a physical government ID tied to every single device Serial ID accessible by anyone who claims they need age verification (read: everyone).
How would that work on PCs?
I tried to get into it but with it being presented as IRC but “fun” on their website, I couldn’t really understand why so many nearly empty projects sites keep telling me to try their server for more (or any, really) information… Then I did try to accept an invite, but why the fuck to I need to create an account to know if I want to create an account to begin with? So now, anything promoting Discord as the main method of getting information simply set off my scam alert.
you need to create an account for everything so that complaint rings hollow. Discord doesnt even have a high barrier as an account can be created in a few seconds and you can use it in the web.
Im currently at the point where I have such a presence on Matrix that I could genuinely delete my discord account
Sadly I think the end result of this won’t be people leaving discord, but people giving up liberties because it’s easier than fighting it
And they’re banking on that, it’s part of why they intentionally gave zero warning…1 month is nothing.
With more time a dedicated set of people could pull the alternatives up into solid real options
Or kick up such a huge ruckus that discord back down and undo it.
This was a very intentional and malicious choice to go “oh, yeah we’re doing this next month, kthnxbye”
Anyone with sense saw this coming when they did the same thing in Australia and the UK but I otherwise agree with your point. I think this is a very calculated move.
When the deadline gets here in a month, 80% of the group that would’ve migrated out of disgust won’t be affected because they just use Discord for group voice chats anyway, and the competition isn’t ready. The rest have been trained to put their personal info out there to anyone who asks for it. And, when (not if) they eventually roll out “IDs for Everyone”, the outrage won’t be nearly as detrimental to their bottom line because it’s already happened before.
Threaten? Bro as soon as the 2 people I care about get on Root I’m out.
Root? What’s that from what I’ve heard a lot of people are moving to stoat.
I made a Root account and run it on NixOS through their appimage. I’m waiting on my friend to get it so I can test the voicechat and screen share but so far it’s functional and has 2 awesome features that Discord doesn’t have. Reply to more than 1 comment with only 1 of your messages. Tabs on the top similar to a browser, it’s just more natural for me than the sidebar shit.
In the mean time I’m still probably gonna host a Matrix server with a VPS incase Root ever decides to pull a Discord.
Plus I just don’t like the name “Stoat.” xD “Get on Stoat bro” Sounds weird.
Plus I just don’t like the name “Stoat.” xD “Get on Stoat bro” Sounds weird.
This is actually the main reason I believe most of these discord alternatives have zero chance at becoming mainstream. Name is 75% of the success. Just think about it.
I could just be me being a doomer, but I doubt any significant exodus will happen. People really about to drop discord? Right…
Yeah I think these articles are trying to push people to leave discord and not actually reporting a real trend. Even on lemmy where people are far more likely to be halfway out the door or wanting to leave discord its still a low amount saying they left.
Across the 20 servers im in i’ve seen 0 movement. People arent even talking about it.
There’s no way in hell I’d upload my ID. Especially since discord recently had a data breach.
Though, threatening to delete (and maybe actually doing so) might make them reconsider.
I mentioned dropping discord in my gaming group chat. Five non political normies and myself. Literally nobody is fighting to stay on discord. We’ll try a few alternatives and even if I’ve gotta fork over a few bucks a month, I will. Any site that requires id is dead to me.
That’s like when people say that this time we won’t pre-order games anymore, and the new call of duty is the steam bestseller a month before release.
I’m with you.
Considering that age verification will only be mandatory to browse NSFW content, and that without it you can still join servers and keep calling during gameplay as per usual, my bet is that exodus won’t happen. There is going to be part of people who will verify, and the unverified half either gonna leave or keep using discord just without NSFW.
Reddit exodus, unfortunately, barely had any impact. Bluesky had a good influx of new users, but it didnt kill xitter. Doubt that there anything going to happen with discord.
Yeah I think people will just strive to keep their servers sfw
Maybe people will finally realize discord isn’t the place for your projects documentation to exist
If its an age-restricted project, sure.
I miss the days of forums and hate having tobfo to discord for support on stuff
Wait, what are people using it for? I use discord for shooting the shit with people about video games and politics.
That’s fine. Unfortunately people are using it to coordinate open source software development. I don’t know how people do it. You have to use the search box and scroll through hundreds of chat messages to find some code you need. It doesn’t show up on google. It’s just horrible.
I’ve seen so many IT projects, associations, communities of minorities using discord in lieu of wikis, forums, documentation, etc. I personally know a marginalized community with a dire need of visibility, information and stuff that has everything locked behind their discord server and everything is about to be lost. It’s both extremely sad and a huge “told you so years ago”
Pretty much anything 3d printing-related has a discord. Want to build a specific type of printer? Latest info is always on the discord, and if you don’t check it you’ll find yourself with pieces that don’t fit together.
Exactly what I was thinking
Good
Do it, pussies. I remember when sites would actually topple when they made poor decisions.
I am just not going to participate in that verification shit, and, for now, I will just not see that stuff anymore.
Why do adults have to suffer because parents don’t know how to control their kids?
Because it’s not actually about the kids, the kids are just the excuse. That’s all they ever are.
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
Please, try Stoat.
That’s the one I’m leaning towards
Fluxer is good tol.
So happy. Discord sucks.
Yeah, I agree. I hope Discord both fails as a company and as a concept.
Information siloed inside a non-easily searchable interface? No thank you.
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some teenagers were publishing, inmoral or unexcepted content like beheading, black mailing small girls. i think as alternative solution, they should ai to detect their messages/content and automatically report/ban them!
Yeah! Using the lying machine to detect things! Genius!
/Sarcasm
do you have better alternative ? they can open source tools to detect them
add a better reporting system, one that automatically spoilers posts with multiple reports, and labels them as having received multiple reports, then asks the human server moderators to approve/delete
It’s what Reddit and Lemmy and Piefed use and it works wonders. And no AI involved.
