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Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by righthand » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

BoredPositron wrote: post #92

righthand wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is more than “unique web design” that cause reading issues with that article. For one the lowercase and as well as arcane keywords and organization. Not mention the autoplay music. I have communicated this to the author and they shrugged it off.

>> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

Yes most of us have read the rule. And I wasnt complaining in my comment I was directing the author as to why their submission was getting complaints and flagged.

Stomping your feet that it doesn’t matter when people are telling your article is slightly unreadable really doesn’t make you or your article worthwhile to invest time in. No matter how good it is.

Have a quirky website fine, but if you have important information you want to be taken seriously for, maybe consolidate that information into a more accessible format. Otherwise people will tell you AND do otherwise.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by xhkkffbf » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

rideontime wrote: post #20

I'm glad to see "Peter Thiel-backed" becoming a widely-recognized epithet.

I think it's a bad trend. It's kind of a meta version of an ad hominem attack. The headline contained no information about why Discord is making the decision, only that there's a bad name associated with the company. The name of the company isn't even mentioned in the headline. This is prioritizing hate over information.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by troosevelt » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

blackcatsec wrote: post #86

giraffe_lady wrote: post #39

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Well, until the upcoming batch of laws goes through classifying discussion of lgbtq people as inherently mature content. This is one half of a two part strategy by the american right to make queer content de facto illegal again without running into first amendment protections. Getting the payment processors banning "mature" content is the other leg of this stool.

Yeah I'm not sure many of the commenters realize that this is the targeted plan. They're already succeeding with over 20 (mostly Republican) states requiring age verification to access pornography. The whole point of this plan is to then gate LGBTQ content behind the age gates, and then criminalize with extremely harsh penalties if teenagers somehow find a way around the age gates. It's a slow process that's taking y…

I think it's possible if not probable you are correct, but a lot of this is not as coordinated as you might think. Religious conservatives just think porn is the devil, and more and more, I find non-religious people that view it as such, too, without some wider plot to take rights away from gay people. They're just prudes and they're happy to remove those rights when given the chance. This certainly is the average conservative, it's not a top-down marching order, it's just how they view things.

To back this up, you suggest that Bush's Child was part of a larger plan to get rid of education, but this is not an accurate assessment of Bush, Bush was a traditionalist in favor of traditional education, he's not of the Trump ilk, and Child was very much a Bush keystone. The push to eliminate the Dept of Education is 20 years farther down the road and pushed by very different people.

I say this because you should know your enemies, viewing everything as part of an elaborate top-down plan often gets you nowhere.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by pfraze » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

EQmWgw87pw wrote: post #78

metalliqaz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it is truly amazing how much damage one person is able to do to civilized society if you expand the scope to a handful of adjacent figures, the catastrophe is truly amazing

I’m hearing this a lot but never with any substance, would you care to elaborate with a hard action or idea with a direct result?

What are you, Thiel’s alt? The guy backed Facebook, built a mass surveillance firm, and talks about democracy as an obstacle. How do you expect people to feel about him?

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by p_j_w » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

metalliqaz wrote: post #29

rideontime wrote: post #20

I'm glad to see "Peter Thiel-backed" becoming a widely-recognized epithet.

it is truly amazing how much damage one person is able to do to civilized society if you expand the scope to a handful of adjacent figures, the catastrophe is truly amazing

Maybe a society that can be so damaged by someone because they're incredibly wealthy shouldn't be considered civilized.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by motbus3 » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

They should never even started doing businesses with that labeled figure.

Like ring recently, they just try to see it the thing sticks and that pisses me off. They should have that as a starting point.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by dgxyz » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

BoredPositron wrote: post #92

righthand wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is more than “unique web design” that cause reading issues with that article. For one the lowercase and as well as arcane keywords and organization. Not mention the autoplay music. I have communicated this to the author and they shrugged it off.

>> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

It's all of those, many more and does the content injustice.

Don't talk about the bad things does no one any good.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by ozmodiar » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

pfraze wrote: post #91

EQmWgw87pw wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So someone is evil because they answer questions by thinking through them? There are no questions in the universe that can’t be stopped and pondered over. In fact, it’s dangerous to even suggest that, that’s the exact mechanism that propaganda runs on.

Ah yes, the real danger to the world isn’t a powerful man feeling ambivalent about our survival. The real danger is society using that moment as propaganda. This regarding Thiel, a man who most recently tried to make a “Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist” meme stick.

Not to mention that he and his cohorts had such close ties to Epstein that I find it impossible to imagine he didn't know exactly what was going on. This is someone who's known for building profiles of anyone who mentions him online, not some ambivalent rich guy.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by baq » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:32 PM UTC

rocketpastsix wrote: post #44

the damage is already done though. Discord just burned years of goodwill and trust. Im in a few discord communities and while they aren't moving Im not looking to join any more right now because of this whole thing.

> Discord just burned years of goodwill and trust.

...not here, they never had any. it is good tech, but so is the w80 nuclear warhead, the tiger iv (for its time) and the j-35.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by savanaly » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

sznio wrote: post #95

toomuchtodo wrote: post #65

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Indeed. Empathy and the levels of wealth accumulation in scope are incompatible imho. They are the paperclip maximizers we were warned about.

I thought about the same recently, in the context of the Epstein files. You don't become a billionaire by being moral. Each time you don't do something because it's wrong, you lost opportunity to make more money. You start with smaller things, then your standards slide more and more, until you are a billionaire, and you're so corrupt there isn't anything for you to do except make more money. Which makes me wonder, ho…

Can't you also make money by making a good decision that benefits you and another party? I feel like I do this all the time, just on a relatively small scale.