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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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[-] melfie@lemy.lol 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tired of so many discussions being locked away in Discord, so hopefully they ramp this up and require identification to do anything so everyone will move to a more open platform.

[-] Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Discord and github are the two platforms barely anyone dares to speak about. The Foss community barely mentions the usage of such platforms, despite nearly all of projects use discord as the support line.

It is really such a shame, since those projects make a significant contribution to open source software in one area. but just shits itself in the other.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

At least public githubs aren't difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.

Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago

Free software contributors I hang out with do mention the likes of irc, matrix, codeberg, and activitypub'ising git a lot.

No time to waste mentioning inferior software that's abusive.

Let alone use it.

[-] innermachine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

What discussions happen on discord? I'm late 20s and play video games regularly and I have never used it. Thought it was where people streamed themselves playing video games or selling bathwater or whatever. Back in the day my home boys and I used to chat on teamspeak while gaming, but who has time for that shit anymore? My gaming is almost all single player or with the wifey 3 feet to my left lol.

[-] emokidforever@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

A ton of game companies (especially indies) have moved bug reports and patch notes over to discord. Suggesting something on the steam forums often gets you redirected to their discord server. And it's not just gaming companies. I've got several pieces of software that the easiest way to find out about betas and updates are to use their discord server. It feels fairly unavoidable if you want to stay informed.

[-] innermachine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That is pretty unfortunate! Crazy how discord managed to corner the internet like that in a few years.

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