Lawyers killed anonymity, Discord's finger just pulled the trigger.
Discord just killed anonymity
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#52> Discord dropped the hammer: mandatory age verification for all users is rolling out next month. The era of anonymous gaming chats is officially over. This isn't really accurate. Age verification is not mandatory for all accounts. You will be able to join a Discord with your friends, chat, and do voice without age verification. Here's the exact list of what's restricted if you don't verify: > Content Filters: Discor…
So? I'm an adult. I do adult things sometimes. In fact, that's when I'd value anonymity the most!
The government would like to know.
1. So they can use it against you later if they want to (eg. blackmail, spying, etc.)
2. So they can start shutting off access to content that those in power don't like
Calling it now: Reddit is next.
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#53No it didn’t. Discord killed itself.
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#54Discord is so utterly horrible. Let it burn.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s time accept the loss of “features” and go back to something simpler I guess I have a hard time understanding these calls to switch to a platform that has even fewer features than the unverified Discord accounts. The blog post is incorrect in claiming that verification will be mandatory. It will only be necessary to access certain features and content. For simple IRC-style chats or even for voice chats with gam…
Yet people are en-mass switching from discord. Anonymity on the internet is important for a lot of reasons and is part of why it’s good. If hacker news required an ID to access who’s hiring and ask HN threads, people would move off. Communities aren’t about the “platform features” they’re about the environment. As for profit CEO after CEO fail to recognize time after time
> Yet people are en-mass switching from discord.
Some people are, but I would bet money on it being a very small number of people who switch platforms. The HN bubble is not representative of the average user.
This is similar to when HN thought Reddit's userbase was going to shrink after the API changes (it didn't) or when the internet thought Netflix was going to lose subscribers when they cracked down on account sharing (they grew, not shrank).
A few blog posts about people switching to IRC or setting up their own Matrix servers in protest isn't representative of a mass movement.
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#56If you're looking for an alternative, I'm building flotilla.social, a self-hostable chat app built on nostr, which uses cryptographic identities to prevent identity capture.
Which specific use cases does this provide an alternative for? Chat is a tiny part of what people do with Discord and there are plenty of options already.
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#57I used to use discord for games a long time ago, but then I noticed it was being used for more serious stuff. For example, LLVM moved their chats from mailinglists to discord, as did a lot of open source projects. These are big, important projects, and now their chats are not discoverable and will soon be behind ID checks.
It really bothered me that so many important projects were relying on a proprietary chat technology instead of using mailinglists or IRC which were more decentralized and under the control of the local admin.
I would like to get back to a situation in which you can participate in group chats for open source projects without these being hosted on closed platforms, but if this results in major open source projects shifting from discord to telegram or whatsapp, then nothing will have been learned.
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#58>mandatory age verification for all users is rolling out next month.
This is a lie, this only affects you if you want to view porn/nsfw channels on discord. I'm in the UK happily using it without age verification.
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#59Discord didn’t kill anonymity you did .
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#60The CEO of Discord Humam Sakhnini, is a former partner at McKinsey. I think that tells you everything you need to know.