Discord has quietly begun testing Incode as a new age verification provider, replacing its previous vendor for some users. The company says face scans are processed on-device where possible, IDs and selfies are deleted after age confirmation, and Discord only receives an age result, not your identity. But the move still raises important privacy questions around biometric verification, third-party trust, and the growing trend of mandatory age checks online, especially after the massive Persona breach linked to Discord user data back in 2025
We replaced our site’s (not-very-used) Discord server with Matrix, and even if a few thousand don’t know/didn’t follow, we’re happier to be on a nicer space than Discord :)
Congratulations, that’s great! Since the more people we leave platforms that play with our data, the more people will migrate to platforms that take care of our privacy. Union is strength <3