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.
Downloaded Root, exported my server. Just waiting for all my friends to transition over.
LOL. Deleted my Discord.
Fediverse, assemble!
I could smell the enshitification tidal wave coming yet I doubt my friends will migrate to anything else.
Discord leaked my email. How do I know it was Discord? Because that email address was specifically for Discord. Anyways, now that email is full of spam. Anyways anyways, no way I am letting them leak my face
Its been over five years since I have logged into discord. Its shit.
They’re banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it’s insane.
Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?
I’ve been paying for nitro (for some reason). Yeah I’m dumb. But I just cancelled it, so I guess I’m getting smarter
Welp that sucks time to find a new platform
Stoat is the most discordlike, Matrix is the most privacy-focused
I’ve been trying so hard to work with Matrix. Then once you get it going everything is dead.
Stoat seems pretty good, but it’s still a bit buggy. It kept disconnecting and reconnecting, but I logged out and then back in again and that fixed it.
Matrix! Unredacted.org is a great place for newcomers to host their first server.
First time I’ve heard of Unredacted. Do they have somewhere to show their legibility?
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)
Signal is an open-source, encrypted messaging service for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls
It is developed by the nonprofit Signal Foundation and its subsidiary Signal Messenger LLC. Signal’s software is free and open-source. Its mobile clients, desktop client, and server are all published under the AGPL-3.0-only license
I finally got my parents onto it, and have been pretty happy with it as an alternative to Facebook Messenger.
What the fuck
Fuck discord. Hope some people leave over this.
bunch of friends and I just stood up a matrix room on a friend’s server and moved over there. fuck discord
Not from me.
Good thing I don’t use Discord.
Time for a return to Inter-Relay Chat.
If ICQ held on for just two more years…
Yeah… No how about we just stop using Discord and move to something more decentralized like Matrix
If they make the onboarding suck less, sure
I hear this. What could be better? You make an account and if its federated your done. Login, boom.
Probably the uncertainty of choosing a server and have it either vanish unexpectedly or it’s admins ban your account without prior warning or transparency, which is also pretty common here in the fediverse.
I always help onboard people choosing one or two longstanding servers they might like. The last time I told someone to just use the matrix.org server to begin (years ago) it had closed registrations two hours earlier. Never again. 😅
