Discord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods — each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing.
  • unglueclass23@programming.devEnglish
    16·
    8 days ago

    I don’t really understand after reading the article what changed? All they did was quote discords blog post from February and this random twitter account … that also had no sources.

    Not to mention the article is AI slop.

    Is this like some sort of reminder or something? huh?

  • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The selfie method stands out: on-device processing with no video retained is a meaningful privacy distinction.

    Yea I don’t buy it

    • Brennenstein@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      Yea I don’t buy it

      Good. No one should. Not at least after the data breach. I ain’t giving them shit.

  • spacegoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    Discord is perhaps the most unnecessary and readily replaceable service and they don’t seem to realize how short their time is

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      readily replaceable

      I think the last time they tried this showed just how NOT replaceable they are. Every alternative lacks critical features or is still so deep in development that a workable, scalable product is still years away. And that’s not even touching the difficulty of getting people to move.

      People switched from mumble and teamspeak to discord because it offered more features and worked better in all but a few edge cases. In the years since, nothing else has been developed that even comes close to matching all the things it does. If you think it’s as simple as slapping together a VoIP program with a chat feature, you are vastly underestimating what every day users would want.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Sable already offers most of the features of Discord, even ones otherwise locked behind the Nitro pay wall.

        What’s more difficult is getting people to move. There’s always excuses, and nothing is EVER going to be the exact same as Discord. So the excuses become progressively more granular.

  • LeftReddit2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Moved onto Matrix a while ago because of this. Gonna be real, Discord is better but all Matrix asked me for was hardware verification. I fucking hate this ID verification thing. Like we are going to see a sharp spark in identity theft going forward.

    …and shit, I might be part of it. I had to verify with an ID to get my CompTIA tests, which I passed. I am still arguing with Pearson to delete my personal data, but I might be in the shitter with all the others getting their identity stolen.