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https://reclaimthenet.org/discord-expands-age-verification-id-system-to-more-regions

Discord’s push to verify users through government ids shows how safety mandates can quietly turn into systems of surveillance

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[–] who@feddit.org 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a nice community built on discord, as soon as they announced the age verification thing I made a post.

if they pop up that for me, I’m not coming back to discord, here is other ways to contact me. I added a matrix server and signal chat, etc as a list of alternatives.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I'm only on discord to follow one singular fanfic community

If they pull this I'll be deleting the app immediately after.

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago

Technically, safety mandates ARE systems of surveillance.

Lol I'll drop it so fast

The only platform I won't use no matter what. (It's already blocked in Türkiye.)

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Discord in particular is a huge sore spot for me so this sucks :/. It's one of the few services I can't just leave

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

im the opposite. I was mainly only on for play on discord and I did not have much time for that. I like won't move to a federated version unless it was really mature with rpg communities.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Yeahhh, unfortunately I have friends that I can't talk to anywhere else and won't move. I'm not in the UK so it's not an immediate concern but it seems to slowly be coming for everyone

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today -5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My producer already dropped Discord in 2020. We said bye-bye to that social credit score-infested, digital ID-ridden slopfest. It actually was bad from the beginning.

Come home to Nerimity, where no NSFW is allowed (and thus, no age verification): https://nerimity.com/

If people ask where you came from, go ahead and mention me (I'm Mugita Sokio:7796 on there)