Yeah, I'm not doing that.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Month after they'll need a semen sample and hat size.
And people will do it.
Ok. Well I will delete my account then.
This kind of enshittification is intolerable. The reason this exists is solely to tie your online behaviour to your real life identity.
“They” want to control people’s conversations in the digital third spaces. And to find ways to punish you for the thoughts they disapprove of. Discord is happy to sell that data to whomever is buying it.
Oh well. More fediverse, please!
The reason this exists is solely to tie your online behaviour to your real life identity.
Are you saying Discord does not have a problem with sexual predators on children?
This will do absolutely nothing for that unless they outright ban DMs for unverified users
Luckily i never understood what discord was for, so i never joined. But yet another company that will crash and burn because they hate consumer privacy.
It’s for online communities, group chats, and audio/video calls with streaming built-in. It’s really very good and incredibly easy to learn how to use, but recently it’s been pulling some increasingly concerning shit. Started simple and clean, then started adding shit for who knows why.
In this case it’s to please the anti-porn companies and places like the UK.
“For most adults, age verification won’t be required, as Discord’s age inference model uses account information such as account tenure, device and activity data, and aggregated, high-level patterns across Discord communities. Discord does not use private messages or any message content in this process,”
The inference model probably sucks and will fail yo distinguish a lot of users.
Discord is not needed. Quit. Kill them. Watch them BEG to get us back, then say no.
I’m all for jumping ship on the grounds of this being an overreach. However there just aren’t any good alternatives to Discord which would entice the general public from following suit.
Discord has the advantage of being a very frictionless user experience. You make one account and can join whatever servers you want thanks to its centralized design. It has file sharing, gif and video support, voice channels, screen sharing, API support with websocket events, and a hefty amount of bots to ease management.
There are other solutions but they don't cover the same amount of features. Some focus on voice, some focus on chat, and some try to do as much but the experience isn’t quite robust. It’ll be like Reddit users and the API fiasco that people thought would be its downfall: the activists will leave but the general community won’t care enough, or aren’t tech-savvy enough, to be bothered.
There are other open source alternatives to discord that also exist
I'm currently deploying matrix on my home server. would definitely recommend everyone able to, look into deploying it. it seems doable if you go the kubernetes helm chart route.
I got it working with docker but video always seemed a little hokey as I didn't understand turn servers and the various protocols.
Each server hosts about 100 people from the docs and it handles federation with all of the features you mentioned. Honestly it seems better than discord if you put some time in.
some steps I took to make it easier on myself:
- used pangolin on vps machine
- ran their cart in my cluster
- can expose matrix endpoints via a UI
There are other open source alternatives to discord that also exist
matrix clients are unintuitive, complicated and weird. It's not a Discord experience and that's all that matters to 99% of people. No body cares about encryption and security otherwise no one would use discord.
Each day that pass we get closer from Chinese internet
Closer from?
!Don!<'>!t!< you mean to?
If that's true then rest in peace discord. Or rest in hell I should say.
My discord account is ELEVEN YEARS OLD !? Why would I ever need to prove that I am not a teen !? I would have had to create my account when I was 6 years old to still be a teen with this account, which is obviously ridiculous.
I guess it so that they comply with all the new laws popping up in all the countries...
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Well, fuck that shit
Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally
So in other words, if you only use Discord as a messaging app and for small servers between friends, this won't affect you?
I honestly have no idea why Discord started trying to push itself as some normal social media like Facebook, and why people started treating it as such. Discord was a glorified telephone line with gifs and web links. I don't need some manufactured sense of "community" among thousands of people who happen to watch the same YouTuber as me.
Discord is a vocal opponent of the laws requiring this stuff and helps the legal fights trying to stop this from becoming mandatory by law. My impression is they are doing what they think they legally have to in a growing number of countries and states.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3meiroz7b322w
" Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to. "
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