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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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[-] termaxima@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I could smell the enshitification tidal wave coming yet I doubt my friends will migrate to anything else.

[-] amos@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

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[-] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] 58008@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

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?

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Month after they'll need a semen sample and hat size.

And people will do it.

[-] AgentBoom@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Now Discord users are furious and canceling Nitro. I wonder where they will go if the update gets released.

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[-] baitu@jlai.lu 17 points 2 months ago

Each day that pass we get closer from Chinese internet

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[-] xvat7@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

LOL. Deleted my Discord.

[-] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

[-] hayvan@feddit.nl 16 points 2 months ago

“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.

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[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago

Good. Can't wait for discord to go away.

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

We use Discord in the programming courses I teach, not sure how it's going to go over with the students.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

Seems like as long as your server is "teen appropriate" they won't have to verify.

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

If it is advenced theoretical CS, it is definitely not

(bc its soo damn hot)

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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

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

[-] PortableDoughnut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 months ago

I'm trying to figure how to get my friends to use matrix instead of discord

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Deleting Discord ASAP.

[-] julysfire@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Already migrated to self hosted IRC to get away from Discord and this proves that it was the right choice

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