If Discord’s age inference model can’t determine a user’s age, a government ID might still be required for age verification in its global rollout. According to Discord, to remove the new “teen-by-default” changes and limitations, “users can choose to use facial age estimation or submit a form of identification to [Discord’s] vendor partners, with more options coming in the future.”
The first option uses AI to analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device. If the age group estimate (teen or adult) from the selfie is incorrect, users can appeal it or verify with a photo of an identity document instead. That document will be verified by a third party vendor, but Discord says the images of those documents “are deleted quickly — in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.”
With the new Identity and Facial Scan Requirements, I hope that Discord dies a painful death and people move back to old school forums or at least some open source platform like Element.
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Can’t wait for the ID and face scan database to leak online, as it literally always happens
Gonna suck losing so many friends but I’ve sullen and listless as if late so I doubt anyone’s gonna miss me. Guess element is always there too
Literally me as of like 6 months ago. Swapped entirely to Matrix and Delta Chat and was only able to pull about 3 friends out of 20.
All my friends have paired up /moved in anyway not in the same house but I doubt they’re gonna be lonely or not be able to talk to their most talked to discord mates
NGL, I need to learn some coding and help the internet be restored to its natural order. FOSS projects thanklessly run by absolute strangers for a laugh.
Awfully nice of Discord to help promote FOSS all free of charge like that! They’re so generous, just like Microsoft!
Just gonna use a gmod dupe anyway
Except I’m probably gonna change male_07 to kirky for the bit, after all we ARE charlie kirk
if i submit nothing, do i get to use a pruned down version of discord?
you get to use the “teen version” so all the servers marked as “adult” for any and all reason (including none) you will no longer be able to use
I’d bet it works for a day or two, then your account will be suspended due to “suspicious activity” and will require this ID process to unlock the account.
i have been considering alternatives for a bit. my use case is pretty casual. i use it primarily for text chat for a family channel, text among a small friend group (less than a dozen), and occasionally voice chat with the same friends when gaming. none of these people want to upload IDs lol.
i need something the tech illiterate family can figure out and install on their tim cook phones for text chat, but will also work for voice/text with my broke android/PC friends to share shitty memes and maybe even short dumb videos. i use linux, so i want it to have a client for that too. so, definitely multi-platform.
obviously would like secure and anonymous.
was considering signal or something defederated like matrix. i don’t really want to self host, but i could for something incredible and perfect. i feel capable of researching this and making my own decision without input, but i like to solicit input and opinions because its probably wise!
Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with their new Pissraeli CEO
