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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Privacy
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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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Why did we leave it?
teamspeak 4 felt like it was in the stone age while discord had a bunch of cool ass features for chatting outside of voice. it also was much more appealing to casuals by being free to use and super easy to set up your own server, whereas setting up your own teamspeak server involved portforwarding and whatnot that turns off the vast majority of "normies"
We left it mostly because there were better services out there + the UI was considered outdated and all. But personally, I'd rather take the outdated UI than have my data stolen.