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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default "teen-appropriate" experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago

I think they're already too big to fail. They captured the entire market. There's no real competitor with any kind of noticeable fraction of the market share.

The closest thing to a competitor are business products similar to slack or teams. None of those have anything close to feature parity like high quality streaming at no cost.

I would gladly host something myself, but I can't do it all. IMO this needs a lemmy equivalent with decentralized hosting or something.

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