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Criminals on Discord will still do crime even with Age verification shit. All they gotta don not set anything to Adult Content. If they don't work on their Moderantion team like they should have done back in 2017 nothing would have happened

Wait until you find out the live stream happened on Instagram and was organized on WhatsApp. Discord had nothing to do with the issue, and our gov is using it as a scapegoat for Meta.

So you're gonna have to show a picture of yourself that no actual person may ever see when people can already see each other when they go outside. Really doesn't sound like a deal breaker

Fyi, this was never cancelled in the first place. They never said they weren’t gonna do it, they just kept delaying it until what I can only presume is the right time when more ID verification bills will be passed down or be put in effect.

The only difference now versus earlier this year is it now has some stupid codename I already forgot and the release date of “we dunno like, fall?? winter???? january?????”

They legally cannot. Discord HQ is based in Cali and in Cali social media companies are legally required to have ID Verification especially sense the ID Verification bill passed congress months ago. Unless you want Discord to stop existing they legit cannot stop doing this it is expected of them

I don't know details friend, but it is already happening over here. Brazil has had ID verification on Discord for a while now, and they manage to block video streaming here as well, as demanding other things.

Yeah that's probably because of the big UK censorship thing "targeting" kids. They couldn't enforce it in the USA so I believe politicians over here were lobbied to put it into power with a bill. Not 100% sure myself but it doesn't surprise me

I just think all of this verification stuff is so idiotic. I understand what they actually want; to swipe people’s data and such. But even that feels half assed. It all feels so short sighted and stupid.

I wouldn't call it "the hard part", it's more the fact that there is no better alternative. Even if there is, one bsky / twitter post is not enough to flip the thousands of accounts to turn it off It's a minor drop in the bucket that discord will write off as a slow quarter in the tax season

I get it, but until everyone else moves, Im still a lone sheep while all my friends and relevant groups I follow stay on discord. This transition, until it happens, gonna suck.

just saying, "there are no alternatives" is false. we're mentioning that one because we had trouble with stoat's (lack of) stability, and fluxer intends to federate, allowing real independence from a centralized system. it isn't just hypothetical either, there's >120k users.