The only way to get around this would be to verify your age, which Discord says can be accomplished in one of two ways. The first is to “submit a form of identification” to Discord vendors (i.e. scan your physical ID), or to use “facial age estimation.” Discord says that the latter process happens fully on-device, as “video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.” For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”

Between the features that are limiting being almost entirely things I don't want anyway (random friend invites are literally just fucking scams and ads to begin with), and the entire process being completed on-device... What is this, some slow news day? Everyone is losing their minds about this being some insane overstep like Discord is asking for a blood sample, or even a photo of your driver's license.

Don't get me wrong, fuck this age verification nonsense, but it's pretty clear this is some very specific government regulatory appeasement where Discord is attempting to avoid culpability for holding data at basically every juncture possible. They already have the useful, farmable data, like geolocation, age/gender demographics and interests. They don't want our government ID. They only want a "yes" or "no" from their app.

Must be a slow news day. Everyone's blowing this up in headlines for cheap clicks.

I don't wanna react to this, read this article, or change my habits. Plz send help.

Don't expect me to read your reply tho. I dont wanna

According to this article they just blocking access to adult channels and content. You may still use discord but not be able to view adult chat groups, pictures and other content if you haven't scanned your face or uploaded ID.

Seems fair to be honest. Children on Discord been exposed to adult content some which adults would be disgusted by. Not to count pedophilia en masse and seems to be uncontrollable. Discord was not supposed to be a tool for sharing porn anyway. Maybe it would bring some good into the situation.