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Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Please read the Discord official post.

one to access teen spaces,

That account will be tagged as a teen account until proven otherwise. Therefore any message or DM he will receive will go to a special inbox with most likely warnings to consult it.

Please, again, I understand that the pitchforks are out for discord, I’m just asking you to take the time to read the official discord post from top to bottom.

There will still be unknowns until they release the update but your question is already answered by their official post.

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cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The point I am making is about protecting teens from adults. So teen-per-default means that adults can freely talk to teens, which should be prevented. Either allow no teens on your platform, or teens have to proof that they are teens first.

Adults (and teens for that matter) are pretty good at obfuscating grooming.

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- Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  So teen-per-default means that adults can freely talk to teens, which should be prevented.
  
  That’s not my understanding.
  
  I get your point but by default if Discord thinks you are a teen it also implies all the limitations associated with that status. Which means some media will be blurred and some commands cannot be done.
  
  An adult can keep his “teen default status” but he also keeps all the limitations associated with it. Which I suppose doesn’t mean they can “freely” talk to other accounts as you state.
  
  Notably the DM that a groomer would send will end up in a special inbox for all teens or for that matter “default teen”.
  
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  - Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If every message goes to a special inbox, none do. You just train people to use that inbox like they use their current inbox
    
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    Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    A lot of people I see are very critical of Discord on that but I dont see any solution either.
    
    I think it’s much better than just letting these nasty DMs stay in the dark.
    
    At least a teen will have to go out of his way and ignore the warnings to get in contact with some freak.
    
    Also what better solution do you suggest to implement ?
    
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