Too late assholes… I’m already deleting most of the posts I made on my discord and I will be migrating elsewhere soon.
I’ll be honest, The UK introduced these age verification and ID issues and many places were forced to follow suit. Discord being one of them and I’m sure at somepoint it did pop up but I’ve never signed up for it and I’ve continued to use the software without issue.
My Xbox demands to see my ID so I cancelled my Subscription. If discord starts demanding it I’ll be moving back to Teamspeak or Mumble.
Wait what? Xbox needs a subscription? To play the games you own? They are forcing you to prove your age to play adult video games now? Jesus Christ. We need to find workarounds for all of this, it’s a privacy issue, and a property rights issue. We bought this stuff, it’s ours. We can’t be forced to ask for permission to use our own shit.
Xbox needs a subscription? To play the games you own?
No, you don’t. You can play the games you own just fine without one. They probably mean either the gamepass subscription or xbox live subscription.
They haven’t though.
They’ve just restated the exact same thing but then added on hollow empty promises of “this time we’ll be better, I swear!”
I discordially invited my account to go and delete itself.
same , never really used it but deleted it.
?? You don’t get to walk back my fears. You can walk back the source, but you don’t get to say “nevermind, you’re not worried about this”.
I don’t believe them lol.
Like all other social media sites, they’ll postpone it and bring it back when all the uproar settles.
What happens when the lie? Nothing. If they say they will delete something, but they keep it, nothing will happen to them. So of course they will keep all the information. Maybe shuffle it from here to there and then delete here.
I guess I need to talk about my 401k at least once before March or something.
“For most users” the whole point here is to gradually get people used to having to show their papers to access the internet. We must accept nothing less than a total reversal here. Give them an inch each day and eventually they’ll have their mile.
Keep looking for alternatives.
They didn’t walk back shit, they upped the stakes by saying they use your chats to analyse your age. That’s just as bad.
I think the article title is technically correct. They walked back the fears that users had. You’re right that they haven’t changed their policy, and they’ve exposed themselves as being extra creepy to someone like us, but we aren’t the majority of Discord users.
I imagine the average Discord user, if they were even aware of this change at all, is breathing a sigh of relief right now, until these changes (or changes like them) actually affect those people
That’s why I am deleting my shit and going to delete my account.
They were already doing that.
Every advertising company already monitors you whenever possible to determine things like your age to target ads as effectively as possible. If a isn’t relying on a third party for advertising like Google AdSense, and they’re handling it internally, they definitely know that info.
I assumed they were already doing that, after all the IPO is coming do they will be doing all they can to make money and avoid risk. Admitting it however shows they are desperate.
To think they weren’t already doing that is naive. They hold a lot of liability hosting the amount of data they do, and that’s without the obvious gain they’d have selling data.
If I used discord, they would assume I’m 7 years old.
goes back to sitting on the living room floor, and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles while eating cereal with gummy bears added in
Jokes on you, discord! I’m 42!
They definitely know you’re 42. Kids these days don’t have the attention span for longer, plot-heavy cartoons like TMNT.
it is admittedly going to be a bit funny if some immature 45 year old man child gets flagged as a teen
They aren’t walking back anything. They just repeated their claim, that “most people won’t even have to give their IDs, because our AI will read all your messages and decide if you’re 18”
because our AI will read all your messages and decide if you’re 18
What the fuck that’s even worse
I read thay Youtube is doing that with watch history so teens are watching videos about taxes, back pain, retirement benefits and such to appear old.
- They’re instead scanning your data using AI… Not exactly an improvement.
- Shitty AI article.
- They were ALREADY scanning your data using AI… And banning people for simply discussing certain topics.
- How do people even notice these things? I honestly couldn’t tell. (Edit: okay, I forgot about the domain)
Anyways, I’m trying to get people in specific vulnerable communities to switch to matrix. But the amount of people refusing to do so out of convenience (and even refusing to setup MFA or using different passwords for their online accounts, including discord) is staggering.
I get your point. But unfortunately the sad truth is, even IF we can convince techie nerds to switch, do you really believe we could convince the vast majority of the ignorant public? The answer is no. And even as a techie who works with computers on a daily basis, I have my reservations about Matrix. It is a slow, buggy, hot mess for the most part, and it’s even more inconvenient when it comes to voice/video chat.
What I’m learning from this is that there is NO FEASIBLE alternative to Discord, let alone one the general public would be willing to switch to. I’ve now got the task of converting my friends to Signal as a temporary half-measure before we have a reliable alternative, but things aren’t looking good.
I agree that matrix is a slow and buggy hot mess, but its issues mainly lie with scaling. As long as your instance is small it works well enough. Imo this is architectural and will never be fixed with synapse.
As for no alternatives for discord. I think the problem is that people have come to expect a certain level of QoS with hosted services that are expensive to maintain for hobbyists (cdn, load balancing, nat traversal, ddos protection, etc). I think this is fundamental to how we’re abusing IP when it’s way past its prime and on life support using middle boxes. If we want to reclaim this space, the best way forward would be something like NDN, but the transition would be astronomical that nobody wants to do it.
Yep to late deleted all my servers and Discord yesterday so no going back.
“Platform will use AI-powered age prediction based on existing user data instead of universal biometric verification”
So is this supposed to make us feel better?
That is even creepier and more stupid. This is why I am deleting my shit and going to move onto a different platform.
wreaks of “fuck you got mine”… so an invasive AI scan has scanned your content and deemed you 18+… gross… but at least you don’t have to upload ID (to a company that literally just had a major breach of their ID data)
but
now a new user joins. they don’t have that history of interaction, so what are they meant to do? either upload ID or not be part of their community
My best guess is new accounts will be autolocked to ‘teen mode’ and you will have to upload ID if you want to unlock it
I was working as a support agent on Epic Games when they decided to limit everyone underage on certain functions on Fortnite. They now ask for your birthday when you open the game and if you are underage (the age varies by country) it will lock your account until you can prove you are an adult (using a 3rd party service)
Until they walk back the walkback.
Incremental rollouts has a successful track record :<
