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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (www.theverge.com)
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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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[-] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

The German passport (and I'm sure many others) has a NFC chip in it and you can use it with an open source app to securely prove your identity online. In cases like this, the only information pulled from your ID would be "over 18" or "not over 18".

It's one of the few things my government did right in the digital space. And yet almost nobody in the private sector uses this. I'm tired of being asked to upload a photo of my ID for age verification.

[-] deadymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

[-] Bacontaters@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Damn my girlfriend and I just migrated from fb messenger to discord a few days ago. She isn't tech minded, but it's been good with sharing TV with each other and organizing things

We were already planning on trying Whatsapp next week. Kinda trying multiple messaging apps. Hopefully it's a good spot to land

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[-] shuva_meta@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Revolt chat is amazing

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ok, rare to see such an explicit kind of Great Filter / Idiot Test play out at scale, but here we go!

Anybody who is still using Discord after it requires you to personally directly link your drivers liscense or w/e to it, well, they're fine with every government apparatus of any kind knowing everything they say and do on Discord.

Good luck to those glorious morons, truly, good luck.

You are going to need it.

Super, duper hope you're not queer or trans or neurodivergent.

... you... think the 23 concentration camps currently being built by ICE / FEMA are ... only for migrants?

Brown people?

Well you trust the current fascist regime a lot more than I do.

[-] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

First they came for...

[-] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

First they actually came for the trans people, but the poem author didn't care to notice because he was a Catholic Priest.

But ya know. Its like that again.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

The day where platforms enshittify so bad they implode can't come soon enough

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Good thing I don't use Discord.

Time for a return to Inter-Relay Chat.

[-] max@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

yay, on my way to delete my account :D

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