Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans
Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans
Some things to note.
- "flagged by our sensitive media filter" They're scanning the content of your chat.
- If you don't want to verify your age, you can still use Discord. Sensitive media will just remain blurred.
- Discord and its vendor don't store verification data and claim the face scan happens entirely on-device. (totally real and not subject to change)
- Verification is a one-time thing per account.
- This is currently only in the UK and Australia to comply with local laws.
- Australia restricts access to social media while certain US states restrict access to pornography. Toss-up on whether Discord rolls this out for US users.
- Enshittification is inevitable.
Oh and that biometric data? The US government can just ask for any and all of it any time it wants to and Discord has to legally give it up.
Do you really want to be handing this info to the Trump admin?
Get the fuck off Discord, now.
I don't give one flying fuck how easy it is to use, they're betraying you with every word you type into it. They keep all that data, and thus all that data is up for grabs by the US government because it's a US company.
This is fascism we're dealing with here. You can piss and moan about "user interface" and "it's hard to understand Matrix" when you don't live under fascist authoritarianism you fucking fools.
age verification for social media is usually handled by a 3rd party.
Ewwwww this is gross. Fuck discord
Get yourself and your friends on Matrix with Element or any other GUI program for Matrix. You're on Lemmy, try out Matrix
if only people bothered, even Linux oriented discords don't want to move to Matrix even though the experience was nearly identical
If only it was that simple…
Also don't forget they're planning an IPO this year to massively accelerate the enshittification. Surely their investors wouldn't demand that this biometric data be monetized.
What's a good FOSS discord alternative? Is matrix the replacement?
Kind of. Matrix is the most supported, and works very well. However, it doesn’t have feature parity with Discord. Voice/video chat can be added via integrations, but it takes quite a few modifications to the server’s infrastructure.
It’s also a bit more complicated to navigate,
Revolt is being created as a proper FOSS Discord replacement (similar UI even), but it’s pretty early in development. It also lacks federation, which is a huge caveat imo.
Federation is a moderator's nightmare. I don't blame them.
Haven’t heard of Revolt before, looks nice! Shame about the lack of federation and no e2e encryption yet, but other than that I’m quite impressed tbh.
Revolt
