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.
Fuck discord. Hope some people leave over this.
Yeah… No how about we just stop using Discord and move to something more decentralized like Matrix
Deleting Discord ASAP.
Tired of so many discussions being locked away in Discord, so hopefully they ramp this up and require identification to do anything so everyone will move to a more open platform.
What discussions happen on discord? I’m late 20s and play video games regularly and I have never used it. Thought it was where people streamed themselves playing video games or selling bathwater or whatever. Back in the day my home boys and I used to chat on teamspeak while gaming, but who has time for that shit anymore? My gaming is almost all single player or with the wifey 3 feet to my left lol.
What discussions happen on discord?
You ever have an issue with anything and you find the answer on some random reddit discussion that ends up in your search results when you’re looking around?
Discord isn’t really like the older methods of chatting, where people used platforms to chat for the sake of chatting. Entire communities from forums decided to just upend everything and move into discord. Niche software and other files are often shared among discord communities, or assistance for said files and programs is offered only through specific discord communities.
The platform is still better than anything we had back in the day, it’s just that for some reason people have decided that everything needs to be stored in there.
Anyway, I don’t see much changing. People will probably attempt to take this culture onto whatever new platform they move onto.
Discord and github are the two platforms barely anyone dares to speak about. The Foss community barely mentions the usage of such platforms, despite nearly all of projects use discord as the support line.
It is really such a shame, since those projects make a significant contribution to open source software in one area. but just shits itself in the other.
Codeberg ftw!
Guess I’ll just use steam to call my friends whilst gaming
Doesn’t look like you’ll be affected for that. If I’m understanding the release right, it’s only needed if you’re trying to access age restricted content or to get messages from people you might not know. I use it the way you do, and it doesn’t look like that’s impacted.
Now Discord users are furious and canceling Nitro. I wonder where they will go if the update gets released.
I’ve heard the two main ones people are looking at are Stoat (formerly Revolt) and Matrix. Honestly, I don’t mind having multiple chat clients, we did back in the 90/00s.
I just found out about the AGPL’d Fluxer today
yay, on my way to delete my account :D
If government, the ones that issue those documents, are insecure and untrustworthy what more about shorty companies with questionable products? I have already informed the people in one of the servers I use that the moment they ask me for Auth like that I am out.
I never wanted to use it but had to due to friends, this is my exit.
The day where platforms enshittify so bad they implode can’t come soon enough
I think we’re watching it.
I trust the scammers who call me daily with my ID more than a Discord third party vendor. They just wanted a google play card. Discord wants personal info. This age of censorship is terrible. If it was about about protecting kids just get parents to use modern parental block controls.
So the general consensus amongst my various friend groups and servers I’m in is that fuck this, time to abandon ship. Was wondering what the straw would be for this service.
I’d like for this to be a mass exodus event, but since it only stops you from accessing age-restricted servers you’re not really going to have to verify your ID if you’re just using voice chat with your friends or whatever. (At least, from what i can tell.) So it might cause an exodus of the NSFW segment of users, at least, and I’ll take that. That alone might help spur development to reduce the gap between discord and newer competitors.
I got banned for being underage, and had to prove my identity.
How did you have to prove your id? It was wrong on you being underage?
Very much wrong. I had to write my username (with the numbers too) next to me. Fun fact: I could not access my Discord, so could not see my exact username, so a friend saved me over Reddit, by sending me my username. I also needed my ID next to me, I had to take a picture. I of course, got the news that my personal information was leaked from support, some time later.
How nice.
Jesus, I wish you hadn’t done that, it just encourages them. Isn’t it convenient they never promise not to use this personal information for commercial purposes. Not that a promise means dick with these parasites running these places.
With like twitter, they allowed influence agents to run amok and then when they get flak for it the solution is to demand commercially valuable information from users to prove whom they are.
So they made you present your username, your ID, and your own face?
Next time, doctor an ID with the details of like Pharoh Ramsey or something, I saw someone doing that for an ID thing.
The day an app/service (be it Discord or anything else) asks me to upload my ID, is the day my account gets deleted.
Time for me to review Revolt Chat again to see what has updated.
Wow, apparently they change their name entirely. I am way behind
It’s Stoat now! https://stoat.chat/
I recently joined! It’s very close to Discord.
Wow! I had checked these guys out a long while ago. It seems they’ve gotten a fresh coat of paint. I should revisit it. Maybe convince my friends to switch…
Anyone else not receiving the verification email? Doesn’t seem to work for me.
I think it took a long time for me the first time. They seem way smaller than Discord, so I imagine they don’t have the fastest infrastructure. Also, I signed up with a non-gmail account and their verification email did make it through eventually.
No VOIP? That’s the only reason I ever use discord, when my friends force me to so I can talk while we play games. Guess teamspeak is still king
No video call or screen share either from what I can tell, which is uhhh pretty major to day the least. That said, it’s not like I need only use one platform at a time. I’ll probably get on that and start using it and hope that they add those things in the future. But yeah, I’m not sure if I would call it close to Discord right now.
They have voice chat channels in Stoat, or are you wanting p2p calls?
No just voice channels, I’m glad they have them but it was completely missing from their marketing on the website. Just says “text channels done right” and there isn’t a single line about voice support
Edit, found a reddit post from about a month ago which is copied below. So it looks like it barely supports voice so far.
"Apparently The voice chat feature has been brought back in stoat
It only works in the desktop version though. Mobile devices you’re going to have to wait a bit longer though.
Otherwise the quality of it is really really good but you will experience a massive delay in your voice being sent through the voice medium. It’s about 800 millisecond delay even with the fastest speeds. But at least it’s something. "
Ah, I could see that being confusing.
I will say compared to discord the voice channels sound rough and I’m not sure I remember that many options to customize the experience
That sucks. Many people use discord to join groups and talk about their interests. Maybe open source tools like matrix will get more users after this rolls out.
