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Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

The general comment and title is simply untrue. They will require verification in cases of known adult or censored content, and in NSFW channels and servers. “Regular” content and spaces are untouched.

That said, I give it 6-10 months before it’s required for all users regardless of content access.

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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Wouldn’t that significantly destroy their user base? Most servers I have seen it talked about the feeling seems to be not a fucking chance but we don’t use this for porn anyway.

I would love to see a popular alternative appear from this.

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- WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Queer people are pornographic according to the authors of these laws
  
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- Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  A popular alternative only arises if you migrate to it before it’s popular. There are multiple platforms already available that resemble discord already
  
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  - Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes but if I want to talk about the game Isonzo, they have a discord but not IRC.
    
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WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You’re blatantly ignoring how these laws are actually impossible and judging the by the lies of their authors.

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- Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Note my final comment. I understand the reality.
  
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ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

“Regular” content and spaces are untouched.

They are also rolling out something like an AI that monitors your chatting and browsing habits that can determine your “implicit age” as well, this isn’t exactly shocking, but it’s gross how it’s being promoted as a handy feature.

The entire thing is a state surveillance project and yes, they are working on desensitizing the population to having no privacy or personal lives.

Sure hope our government doesn’t collapse to a fascist oligarchy or authoritarian surveillance state, sure could bite us all in the ass when the armed deathsquads get ahold of both our identifications, faces and our ideology and the names and faces of all our friends and family members.

Or would be a shame if all the people who use discord to communicate with other marginalized people suddenly had all their personal information revealed to friends, family and schools, including what chat channels and servers they visit, what games they play, who their friends are and so on.

Oh well, I’m sure the company and the government will be completely fair and transparent about all of our online identities.

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MarcPG@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This includes a lot of harm reduction servers (especially drug related ones like the TripSit one, who help a lot of people every day and probably even save some lives), and having you need to send in your face or ID to access potentially life saving harm reduction info on illegal things is just the opposite of how harm reduction should work.

Sure, there’s still websites with these features, but discord was originally meant to be a safe space for everyone (including people who need help) and this just adds an extra barrier.

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- Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah that’s definitely an issue. Realistically the only solution there is just to migrate such a community to a new home (fedi serves this need well). But admittedly one of the great boons of discord was discoverability, and that will be lost elsewhere without intervention.
  
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