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.

  • radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Maybe people will finally realize discord isn’t the place for your projects documentation to exist

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      3 months ago

      Wait, what are people using it for? I use discord for shooting the shit with people about video games and politics.

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        3 months ago

        That’s fine. Unfortunately people are using it to coordinate open source software development. I don’t know how people do it. You have to use the search box and scroll through hundreds of chat messages to find some code you need. It doesn’t show up on google. It’s just horrible.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve probably paid around 100€/$ in total (been occasionally using and gifting Nitro since 2019 and regularly for about a year). I’ll definitely stop it and using Discord if they follow through with this.

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        3 months ago

        People always ask why even paying users exist - simple, I am a paying user myself, and by that I hold the power to actually cut their revenue rather than just leave the platform.

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          3 months ago

          I pay for nitro because I love discord and love supporting it. I will cancel if they go through with this nonsense.

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            3 months ago

            That’s too late.

            Once they do it, they won’t reverse their path. They have to know they’re losing people now, before they commit. You can always start again after they change their mind.