Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

@verge "Beginning in March, all accounts will have a ‘teen-appropriate experience by default.’"

Who determines what a "teen experience" is, and this is what folk have been saying when protesting this ridiculous age verification thing: it affects everybody and is a privacy issue for everyone, which is a bigger deal than the pretended "what about the children?" They will now be collecting data on children as they grow up.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@verge This reminds me of Footloose.

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@verge They have done it some time ago, in the UK, so it's not exactly news. Just choose your bypass of choice....

[mimesatwork@wandering.shop]

@verge waiting for the second coming of online messaging boards

[aapis@mastodon.world]

@verge why do you people use this trash again?

[sayonaraminasan@urusai.social]

@verge never understood why people use this garbage tier service. I used it for a brief spell some years ago - absolutely hated everything about it. Hard to find info - crap organization, lame monetizing scheme. Total trash. This should be the needle that breaks the camels back for many.

[alextecplayz@techhub.social]

@verge Please leave Discord, you should have left it years ago. I stopped using Discord 2+ years ago, never returned.

Also, don't keep documentation on Matrix, Discord, etc. Put it on a wiki or docs website, FFS.

[alessandro@mstdn.ca]

@UrsaAshBear

Yeah, usually self-owns of this magnitude only happen after being bought out by Yahoo.

@verge

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@verge
“We’re not doing biometric scanning [or] facial recognition. We’re doing facial estimation."

Ok, that actually made me laugh

[billysmith@social.coop]

@verge

Time ti be somewhere else then

[wademcgillis@mastodon.social]

@verge how do you do, fellow kids .gif

[billysmith@social.coop]

@sayonaraminasan @verge

15 years ago Discord had a very good thin client set-up that was great for streaming, and great for video-calls, but unfortunately the enshittification has kicked in.

So fat-client and so slow, their website is.

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@Ertain @verge
I think you're conflating the enshittification with the fascism, but in fairness they're closely related.

[plantfeest@mastodon.social]

@ppb1701 @verge

Sounds like I'm really not eager to try discord anymore @sofonofos 🤍

[plantfeest@mastodon.social]

@ppb1701 @verge is there a #FOSS and or ethical alternative anyone can recommend? and why?

[loke@functional.cafe]

@verge 'let's use discord for documentation'. What could possibly go wrong?

[greytheearthling@fe.disroot.org]

@verge Agh! Couldn't they have waited until Matrix and/or Delta Chat was ready as a Good replacement?

[liquor_american@universeodon.com]

@verge Glad I never became dependent on this shitty IRC knockoff

[pandacab@ni.hil.ist]

@feorag

Even if they're now spoiled rotten by llms, search engines still work well enough to look for them. If your community is to move, it has to be a collective decision and they should do some work too.

@woozle @netskaven @verge

[shadedlady@mstdn.social]

@verge goodbye discord then. I use it a lot but that's a step too far