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Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers (www.therage.co)
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[–] TyrionBean@lemmy.ml 6 points 15 hours ago

So, Discord says they will not be using Persona. Count me skeptical as to their supposed new choice and methodology, given that they appear to have either been:

  1. Unaware of Persona's capabilities or
  2. In on it the whole time.

Neither option leaves me with the confidence needed to remain on any platform which recently announced this sort of "update" for our safety and "convenience".

I told my friends on Discord that I am not telling them how to proceed - they can keep using it if they want to - but I shall remove myself from there (and apparently Reddit as well soon?) post-haste. One reason I came to Lemmy last week was because I was tired of Reddit's US Ownership and, frankly, from everything I've heard...the guy in charge is a veritable Nazi anyway. As for Discord, for my friends I've set up my own Nextcloud instance and we can use Nextcloud Talk. For general groups, I'll have to look into Element with Matrix, I suppose.