I would unironically sooner become an actual hermit and never socialize again than give these cretins my ID or even trust that they'll delete an age verification photo. Knowing Discord? yeah, no, absolutely fucking not
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Everyone pile into matrix and the element client. Got to make it more popular
This is the part, young-but-becoming-wise friends, where the company doesn't give a shit about you and starts to prey on children, who, for a while, become very lucrative.
The chances of discord pushing ahead anyway, even with this very public outcry, is still 50/50.
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This sucks. Fully leaving Discord will be hard for me. One server is functioning as a memorial to my Clan leader who died of cancer.
Maybe I need to research a method of archiving or migrating the data I have access to.
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I am just not going to participate in that verification shit, and, for now, I will just not see that stuff anymore.
Already looking into alternatives. My friends and I are going to switch asap. They aren't that tech savvy, so it's pretty much up to me to find a good alternative and teach them how to use it. I don't mind tho lol
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Im currently at the point where I have such a presence on Matrix that I could genuinely delete my discord account
I abandoned WhatsApp for Discord after meta got its greedy hooks into it. Do they think people won't just make a new account elsewhere and move on? Millennials have done it every two years ever since MySpace imploded after Fox News' Rupert Murdoch bought it. We have been conditioned to let our accounts go.
(Also text messaging, group chats, phone calls, and video calls are things that come standard on smartphones without need of an app. Texting stupid memes to everyone I know has never been easier. Maybe it's my age, but everyone I regularly talk to on discord is also in my phone. Oh noes, I'll have to "text" instead of "chat." The horror.)
I hate SMS and vastly prefer a real chat platform, in the US it's messenger/insta and in EU and much of Asia it's Whatsapp, line in Japan, kkaotalk in Korea, WeChat/weixin for China, and so on. Discord never crossed over to regular people in my experience for the most part (is the hot girl you met on it?).
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