Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

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    Because its federated, is also a really nice messaging replacement and is E2EE. If I only want a discord replacement without anything else I'd consider stoat, but really I feel like Matrix just checks so many more boxes. I've used Matrix for a long time now. Also since its FOSS anyone can build a client for it and you can make it yours

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    Yeah ofc Stoat is too, I'm just saying what I like about Matrix. I just personally don't know of any third party Stoat clients but I also haven't looked into it since I'm accustomed to Matrix. I checked their page but its pretty bare bones on information

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