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Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[โ€“] Tattorack@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This.

A friend of mine went through the trouble of setting up a whole Matrix server with the Sable client when the first rumblings of this came up late last year.

Everything was made and readily available for everyone one we knew to move over. They just had to make an account and that was it.

Nobody came.

Nobody fucking came.

Its just me and two of my other friends on there, because despite everyone crying how Discord is doing something bad, when it comes to it they have nothing but excuses.

"But all my friends are here..."

"But there's a videogame community I'm part of..."

"I don't understand. It's too complicated..."

"I'll move if it really gets bad..."

ICE in America is using AI profiling to get rid of or straight up murder peoole, trained on data which includes everything the age verification spyware in Discord sends directly to them. But they don't care. Their convenience is lore important than the lives of people.

So fuck them.

[โ€“] weeeeum@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Same with a local queer server that made an XMPP server. Only 4 (including me) actually made an account. The only reason ANYBODY joined is because were all anarchists but for most lazyness outweighed paranoia