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Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

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[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago

Welp that sucks time to find a new platform

[-] gwl 17 points 2 weeks ago

Stoat is the most discordlike, Matrix is the most privacy-focused

[-] stressballs@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago

I've been trying so hard to work with Matrix. Then once you get it going everything is dead.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Go for XMPP, snikket is pretty much ootb.

[-] stressballs@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Those are great private messaging solutions, but not great for hosting communities.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

That changes if people like you start using it.

Kinda like Lemmy.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wish DeltaChat would work better.

Or that Jami would properly look for new messages after a user configurable amount of time - sometimes it'll only do that if you restart the app

[-] stressballs@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I know. I totally agree. But holy shit onboarding is terrible with Matrix. If people struggle wrapping their head around Mastodon, this is much worse.

I found Lemmy to be the easiest onboarding of all the federated networks.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I think I found Discord much more confusing than matrix, personally.

That said. Discord no longer exists for me. Account deleted today. Nothing of value was lost.

[-] stressballs@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Literally nothing to miss! All the communities I liked all fell apart and/or swung to the fascist right long ago.

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've been using it exclusively (later along with self-hosted Jitsi) since 2017.

There's tens of millions of messages, doing just fine.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Stoat seems pretty good, but it's still a bit buggy. It kept disconnecting and reconnecting, but I logged out and then back in again and that fixed it.

[-] quips@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Matrix! Unredacted.org is a great place for newcomers to host their first server.

[-] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

First time I've heard of Unredacted. Do they have somewhere to show their legitimacy.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] gwl 1 points 1 week ago

It's just a server host mate? There's no such thing as "legitimacy" there?

[-] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

That's kind of a weird question, no? If I'm going to invest in a server, I want to see some kind of integrity and trust first.

This is the first time I've seen this link or company name. I'm not saying they're bad, but I was hoping the person who shared the link had something to vet them.

[-] gwl 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 week ago

Its a matrix server, man.

https://unredacted.org/services/si/matrix/

No one is gonna take you seriously talking like that. We aren't investors.

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