This is for one reason one reason only. So dear leader can find out where you live if you say something unkind about him.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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The whole internet is adult-by-default, so why are we doing any sort of age verification?
But please Discord, keep ruining the platform, cause an exodus.
Except trans children. Don't think of them. Apparently.
Because parents do not want to deal with monitoring or taking care of their children. You can limit apps etc on PCs and phones easily with parental controls and no they are not perfect but parents are lazy or too incompetent to figure it out.
Sounds like a lack of education. The focus should be there, not age verification.
You are not wrong, but then a large portion of the US glorifies being stupid and sees any sort of education effort as some sort of freedom destroying conspiracy.
Yep, huge portion. Sucks.
Hoping discord pulls a windows and enshitifies so completely that people finally abandon it
I personally don't because while I switched to Linux because Windows got too shit I am the only person I know who did that. No one else has switched at all and I still have to go back to it to use it for things that I can't do on Linux or don't work nearly as well. So I would much rather use Discord in its current state not with the dumb age verification thing with the people I currently use it with. I would love for there to be a popular alternative that is actually good but I don't know of one.
The problem is that there isn't really anywhere to Exodus to. I already know people here on Lemmy are going to say Matrix but that's just not an option. It's trash, the protocol was designed by idiot neck beards that have never heard the term UX. Pretty much everything was done in a way that while technically speaking is efficient makes it unbelievably tedious to actually use and in some cases just outright annoying ensuring that users will never want to use it. Most recent example is forcing device verification, it is technically correct, it is better from a security standpoint it is better from a verifiability standpoint. But for the average user who could not give less of a shit about that it is nothing more than something that pisses them off and annoys them every single time they open the application because despite the fact that they should be remembering at least in my testing it almost never does and I have to put in my stupid key every single God damn time especially if I'm using it in the browser.
Teamspeakers trying to rebuild itself to be more Discord like but it's still in early beta and not at all ready for it so that's not an option, and everything else is pretty much either just as shit or just as likely to implement this tomorrow as Discord
It's hard to get away from consolidation. I see things like Stoat getting popular, though it looks like development slowed down?
Teamspeak works fine, most use Discord as a voice and quick text app rather than a social network anyway. And honestly the whole "forum" aspect of Discord needs to rot anyway, perhaps this would stop companies relying on Discord as their news and support outlet, because fuck that.
Ohgod its so annoying when I find some software I want to download and its only available to download from their Discord. Like what happened to having a damn website.
Yep. If some software requires Discord for support and updates, I find other software.
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Discord was always an overhyped crap.
A 12 yo that I know scanned his face. It recognized it as an adult and now he can't talk with his friends, only adults...
Is he in the same discord server as them? Or is he unable to send direct messages to them?
Cool.
The restrictions won't change what little I use it for, but it might piss off some of my friends who are deep in the discord rabbit hole.
So what alternative to Discord are we switching to? I'm geniunely asking because my server is an 18+ Roleplay Server and members have been asking what we're moving to... And we don't really have an answer for them.
I've been encouraging everyone to add me on Telegram so we can keep in touch, but Telegram doesn't allow it in the ToS for you make 18+ Only Groups
XMPP, IRC, Matrix or Stoat.
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If they did it right they would grandfather older accounts And start with new(er) accounts. But we know that is not the goal.
Yeah my account is 9 years old, doesn't make sense unless I was 8 when I made the account.
Discord age-verification bot: "Your account is nine years old, and nine-year-olds are too young to use Discord. Terminating account."
You joke but I saw so many complaints when Facebook and Twitter started blocking 13 and younger from people who had ten year old accounts, created when they were under 13, getting banned, despite currently not being underaged. Because the verification was built terribly.
Good. Maybe we can stop using a transient digital bathroom wall as a primary system of information distribution.
Ewww. Discord? More like Discard
British people right now :
Discord always felt way overbuilt to me for a text/voice chat and screen sharing app. Same problem with Teams and others; they aren't forums, stop trying to make them replace forums.
I would love to have an alternative to which some of the communities I am currently in can migrate. Not easy to find anything that is like Discord.
Matrix is a possibility but its sometimes a bit of a hard sell to people.
yeah, was going to say I think Matrix is the reasonable alternative
Matrix is not going to catch on. It is too intense for the average person. My friend didn't want to bother with all the security features and couldn't sign in without issue constantly.
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I dont know if Stoat (ex Revolt) is as good but it seems to be the most direct competitor
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I wonder if they'll take into account that, had I signed up at (the youngest possible age of) 13, the age of my account would then make me 21. I suppose they can't really sell that inferred data...
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