Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
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Age verification for all.

Age verification for all.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    17 hours ago

    Good, maybe the masses will finally abandon that garbage.

    I’m so sick of being directed to a fucking Discord server when I’m looking for a projects forums, especially when researching a specific problem.

    Add on their forced arbitration terms and I’d rather abandon projects/creators that use discord vs support them. I’m not giving up my legal rights just to ask a common question that I should be able to find with a google search. (but can’t because all the answers are on discord instead of a public forum)

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      16 hours ago

      I’m so sick of being directed to a fucking Discord server when I’m looking for a projects forums

      Same, but I’m not sure what Discord is doing will help much, because it only affects server that are classified as “age restricted” (mature content), if they’re not, no verification will be required, for now at least.

        • idlesheep@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          It is known since this age verification has existed for a while now in some regions, it’s only now rolling out globally.

          The server owner is the one that marks a server or specific channels as NSFW.

          So if you don’t send/visw anything NSFW this won’t impact you.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
    20·
    18 hours ago

    Definitely not doing that. Already only use Discord because my friend circle can’t be arsed to use anything else for group phonecalls. Our private channel is not going to disappear anyway, but it’s quite probable that we won’t be able to link/upload media as freely as before - not that we were sharing any sexual content, but “sensitive content” could be literally anything that US authoritarians don’t like, plus content that is just misidentified.

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I’ve got that with whatsapp. Never used discord, it’s more of a gamers thing. But my friends refuse to switch to signal. Even my parents have switched to signal.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        14 hours ago

        Same! How the hell did most of my family switch to Signal, yet my friends and younger brother stick with shit like Discord, WhatsApp and Telegram??