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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by crabmusket »

7bit wrote: post #828
tabbott wrote: post #430

I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with…

Value-focused organizations mean nothing to me. They throw out their values as soon as they are in the way of financial success.

Having a fully open-source self-hostable product improves this significantly.

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Post by coopykins »

I think discord has been terrible for the internet. A lot of open information has become gated. And now it's gated behind a platform that many of us are not willing to use anymore. Let's hope this pushes out people and communities back to forums and such, but in reality other platform will take over.

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Post by vibedev »

pxeger1 wrote: post #821

I've had a Discord account for 10 years. They seem to assume all discord users are at least teenagers, so surely they can't think I was 8 when I created the account. So can't I have the "full" experience automatically?

because they want your data, and to be fair there's no safe way to determine your age, account could get stolen or transferred to other person.

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Post by popcorncowboy »

Madmallard wrote: post #839

Well I've spent the better part of 7 years building a community on my own discord server with dozens of friends, many of whom I interact with daily in voice. So... what now? I just have my life literally turned upside down because of a greedy surveillance state?

> "On my OWN discord server"

[Emphasis added]. You are confused about ownership, and now sadly are suffering the consequence. The answer to your question is simply yes.

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Post by pbmonster »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #836
spragl wrote: post #810

I have mentioned this before, but age verification can be solved by hash chains. They can prove age without compromising privacy. It is crazy that the solutions Discord goes for are IDs and selfies. It definitely gives the impression that there are shady ulterior motives. Hash chains are simple. If they were adopted, Discord would clearly be in bad faith taking the steps that they do now. If you search you will find…

Even easier, just get tokens that carry no other information from ones government, and the government runs an API, that for a given token tells whether that token is valid. Can tokens be stolen? Maybe. Can your face be stolen? Today yes.

What's stopping kids from all using the token of that one older brother?
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