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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
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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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[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I tried to get into it but with it being presented as IRC but "fun" on their website, I couldn't really understand why so many nearly empty projects sites keep telling me to try their server for more (or any, really) information... Then I did try to accept an invite, but why the fuck to I need to create an account to know if I want to create an account to begin with? So now, anything promoting Discord as the main method of getting information simply set off my scam alert.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

you need to create an account for everything so that complaint rings hollow. Discord doesnt even have a high barrier as an account can be created in a few seconds and you can use it in the web.

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't have to in order to figure out if Lemmy was something I wanted to use. Neither for IRC. That makes Discord vastly inferior to both.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

your internet usage must be very limited.