I uninstalled Discord yesterday.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Oh, good. Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir's co-founder Peter Thiel. That's the nail in the coffin for me. It'll be Matrix only from me from now on!
And the new Discord CEO is Israeli
Wooooowwwww. It’s being used for exactly what I said it would be~
I know a lot if us are not even surprised in the least, but i hope some of the head-in-the-sand naysayer motherfuckers wake up and learn something.
When they say the images wont leave your computer. Its because they converted it to facial geometry. They dont want the images because they take too much storage.
When they say they will delete it after processing, processing includes sending a copy to whoever else theyve agreed to share it with. Palantir, im sure here, maybe through an intermediary data broker.
I deleted my discord account immediately when the news of this face-check-age-check broke
Thank you, that was just very useful. Deleted. One more gone.
More and more things we give away because parents can't be bothered to parent their kids. This is exactly how they win by slowly chiseling away our perceived rights until there is nothing left. I'll certainly not participate in any Internet that requires me to shed my anonymity.
Okay, this has nothing to do with parents parenting their kids. It has 100% to do with the perception that the internet is dangerous and using that perception to collect information about people. That's what they want, to put a name and face to all interpersonal interactions so they can use them for marketing and law enforcement.
Social media converted half of Americans into nazis in about a decade and elected Trump twice. If you don’t think the internet is dangerous, you’re not paying attention.
That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to be sold without access to half the internet. Problem solved.
That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to be sold without access to half the internet. Problem solved.
how would you that? most children aren't buying their phones by themselves
Pass the law. Word it properly. Let the market do something useful for once and accommodate the new rules.
Some folks would say half of America had always been either Nazis or Nazi sympathizers. But we just call those later groups, Nazis.
30% of humans were already evil. But we didn’t have criminal pedophile cabals running the country. Something changed. You know what that is.
Anybody here who have a good recommendation for something as simple as Discord with audio lobbies? I see all these recommendations for alternative platforms and software which mostly focus on the community/forum aspect of Discord, and not the things Discord was meant to be used for: talking with your buddies while gaming.
Teamspeak. It's old and it's still good. Uses no resources at all compared to Discord and there are thousands of free servers if you don't want to host one yourself.
I used Mumble before Discord was a thing, but the self-hosting a server thing got a bit old, and required me to keep my PC on at all times in case my buddies wanted to play games and chat when I wasn't available.
Stoat has vc, but I haven't had the chance to try it with someone else yet.
Any reason why anything not self hosted won't be subject to enshittification down the line? 🥲
Text has been a little sluggish with my tests. Might be due to influx of users, though.
As long as the voice is solid, I'm good with that.
Why is he obsessed with Antichrist? He is gay. Does he think the extreme Christians will think he is one of them?
Once you have a few million dollars, you aren't gay or straight anymore. You're just a person who fucks people. There is no community within him, there is no care or compassion for others, the queer community rejects him, he can't be one of us even in name. He's just a billionaire who fucks men. And they're OK with anything that comes after "billionaire" by nature.
He's a charlatan.
So age verfication to protect the children or to create a menu?
It’s to “Protect the children™”
To scramble and divide any organized communication just like they did Twitter and other social media.
They've been telling us "It's for the kids" but it all makes sense now
Never forget that Peter Thiel knows about the antichrist
It also seems he can't shut up about the Antichrist, too.
Spoilers: Its always whoever he doesn't like that's been in the news the most this week.
A note to that, Thiel always says it's someone who expresses empathy, compassion, or other similar sentiment.
A note to that, Thiel always says it’s someone who expresses empathy, compassion, or other similar sentiment.
Yes, the ""Sin"" of empathy.
There are people who've wrapped 'anti-woke' in bible verses and claim that empathy can be a sin.
Because it's him? That would explain all the kids he raped with Epstein and Maxwell. And being friends with Elon Musk.
More like he's good friends with him.
They literally wear his symbol on their forehead with the maga hats.
So no, not only can they not spot the antichrist, they actively embrace him.
I'm not really religious but that piece of reading has bothered me for years. I've yet to spot watchers in sack cloth though
Making the move to matrix, and hey it isn’t half bad. Convenience is a hard habit to break
My friends and I are trying to. I'm having a heck of a time getting the server going though. Do you know of any good guides? Everything I'm seeing is from years ago and when I follow the guides i keep encountering errors.
Convenience as in "it's what I've always used and I understand it" or are you noticing some awkward aspects?
AI is fascism.
anyone who supports AI is a Mitläufer.
The Panoptocon's actual architect was Bentham, but OK.