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 could smell the enshitification tidal wave coming yet I doubt my friends will migrate to anything else.
Slightly Off-Topic:
I never liked Discord. First and foremost, nowadays, I cannot log into it when I am using a VPN. And back when I could, it always felt so laggy and clunky.
I think todays society is not used to performant software. Everyone just buys a new computer/smartphone every year or every 2 years or so, so they probably have compute power to run whatsoever. I run old shit. 13 year old desktops or so, with no dedicated graphics card, old smartphones, etc. I need software to be performant.
I've been paying for nitro (for some reason). Yeah I'm dumb. But I just cancelled it, so I guess I'm getting smarter
They're banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it's insane.
Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?
Month after they'll need a semen sample and hat size.
And people will do it.
Now Discord users are furious and canceling Nitro. I wonder where they will go if the update gets released.
Each day that pass we get closer from Chinese internet
LOL. Deleted my Discord.
Yeah, I'm not doing that.
“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.
I hope the trick with photo modes in games still works. If not I will be leaving discord despite many good friends and communities I have on it.
Good. Can't wait for discord to go away.
We use Discord in the programming courses I teach, not sure how it's going to go over with the students.
Seems like as long as your server is "teen appropriate" they won't have to verify.
If it is advenced theoretical CS, it is definitely not
(bc its soo damn hot)
Discord isn’t getting my ID. Not that I am in any servers that would be affected. But concerning that if discord wanted to chill us out without hard banning our community, they could just make us age restricted
I'm trying to figure how to get my friends to use matrix instead of discord
Deleting Discord ASAP.
Already migrated to self hosted IRC to get away from Discord and this proves that it was the right choice
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