Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default “teen-appropriate” experience unless it has proof that users are adults.
The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.
if you are some asocial hermit living in a basement, who cares about neither real life nor digital connections, that may be true for you.
most people live in a society and engage in some communities, these have some means of communication and since it’s 21st century, they are usually digital. and these communities are not centered around you and few dozens/hundreds/thousands people are not going to leave the tool they all know and switch to another tool just because you told them to.
if i lose access to my school’s discord, my ability to communicate with my classmates and ask for a help or information on anything school related is going to be significantly crippled, to the point where i am not going to do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
lol
if you leave a communication platform, and no one can be assed to communicate with you through different channels, then all that means is that you don’t matter enough. maybe never really did. if your school doesn’t provide any other means for communication other than discord, then your school sucks.
i never told you what to do with your life, only observing how ridiculous it all is. enjoy your age verification/data breach/stolen identities/etc.
yeah, i am not so important that few thousand people would change their habits to accommodate me. when you outgrow kindergarten, you will find out that neither are you.
lol ok. i’m not the one bellyaching over not being able to leave a thoroughly enshittified and exploitative platform which is only going to get worse and worse
nice talking to you, and again: enjoy your age verifications lol