'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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• WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For someone that used discord only for video chat and the chat sidebar for D&D since we have players in person and a couple in other states, what would you all recommend?

  Should we just switch to Zoom or something?

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My understanding is that if your community is not adult content and you aren’t on any adult servers, you won’t need to ID verify. But I suspect it’s only a matter of time before all accounts are required to verify.

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    • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Discord has more breaches than my wallet how can i even trust these. Clearly, i won’t.

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• Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What features did they exactly disable for unverified accounts?

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  • Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is not disabled yet, but they will be resticting age gated channels by the end of the month yo amyone who hasn’t provided them with a copy of their ID

    Worth noting that Discord had a pretty bad data leak a few months back, where it turned out the ID verification company they hired was not deleting the IDs after they were checked

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are treated as a child, literally, so no nsfw stuff. I think no advertisements as well.

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    • Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No advertisements seems like a bonus to me

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• Jobe@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hope this brings stoat.chat more attention. It’s promising, but not at the same level in terms of features.

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Considering every discord user I’ve ever interacted with, this can only be seen as an ultimate good.

  Fuck, discord, and everyone who uses that. You all deserve to live a nightmare.

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  • Epzillon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Atleast point the gun in the right direction, please. I’ve used Discord since it’s release, when I moved over from Skype. I’ve seen the enshittification all the way through and can safely say, as with every other SaaS software, if its run by a corporation it will eventually pile into a bag of shit. Thats not the users fault. Ive been looking for a promising alternative for a long time but there just isnt a good alternative. When it comes to features used by Discords users and communities most alternatives are lacking some key component that makes a switch hard. I just hope this speeds up the development of these features on alternative platforms.

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• cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am going to bet noone in their team wants to do that, they are most likely pressured into it legally.

  I hope they find a way to fight this

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  • Jobe@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The thing is they aren’t (yet). It looks like the EU might be thinking about introducing some sort of requirement for age verification, but it’s nowhere near decided enough for Discord to demand it globally. There are also methods of age verification that are much better and more secure than what they will use, like the German AusweisApp.

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    • bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The eID can do this EU wide already but it’s usage is regulated and that’s not something a company wants to accept. The EU Digital Identity Wallet would hit the spot even more, since it’s very privacy friendly: ec.europa.eu/…/The+Age+Verification+Manual

      That’s still in testing though and even less in the interest of a company that wants to extract as much user data as possible.

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• Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I guess the positive side of this is that at least some open source projects might move away from discord now.

  The negative is that a lot of them used discord not only for communication but also documentation, losing all of that knowledge in the process.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Copy paste it over?

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How to kill your company 101

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• Donk240978@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  insert gag about Ricky Martin and “facials”

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *blinks

    …What?

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• Willoughby@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  xmpp and mumble.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anyone have any experience with Jami?

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