Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Bacontaters@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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
Tbh for that use case this changes nothing, it’s a horrible change for all the usual reasons but it’s only implementing the stuff that was already the case in the UK for everyone. So age verification is needed for servers that set themselves as 18+ and for nsfw channels (and there might be some ai image scanning bs to determine if sent images are nsfw?), but for just talking to people you can supposedly still use it without age verification.
Still, it’ll probably get worse eventually.
While I understand it is non-standard, I am currently stuck with having a two person server, so this would certainly impact me.
And why do I have a two person server? Because we like to share things about a variety of subjects, and you don’t really want to get a face full of porn in public transit, all because you got a notification about the noodles I had for dinner. It’s something that has not been solved elsewhere (unless you want to deal with group chats as a workaround, but that’s more of a hack than using a server for 1:1), so Discord was the better option here in that regard.
If there is an image scan then yea it’ll be a problem, otherwise rhe server being 18+ is just a setting you have no reason to turn on, and as long as you don’t write nsfw in the channel name, discord won’t know something’s an nsfw channel either.
In any case still really unlucky this happened right after you switched lol
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
signal.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)
I finally got my parents onto it, and have been pretty happy with it as an alternative to Facebook Messenger.