Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification
Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification
Some countries have passed strict new laws dictating youth access to digital platforms.
Lol, I tried using Discord garbage 2 or 3 times, just can't see why people like it. It was an awful experience every time. Convoluted, unintuitive UI, terrible software from a performance and stability standpoint. Seemed like software designed by committee with no clear objectives, and then coded by one schizophrenic dev who was just learning programming.
It's staggering to me it's as successful as it is.
Really? You don't see how a gamer centric software that put text and voice chat in a single solution, with the ability to join multiple servers and hot swtich between them on the fly, that let's you start private chats in a single click and keeps your entire history for all the channels and all the private chats that you have ever been part of, that has built in streaming and screen sharing capabilities without any additional configuration, became successful?
Nobody needs "performance" (whatever that means in this context) from Discord unless you need hundreds of people in a single voice channel. Its also stable AF.
Don't get me wrong, Discord is on a fast track to enshittification, but when it first came out, it made so many things so simple and accessible. There is still not a single solution that even comes close what you can do with Discord to this day.
I honestly don't think many power users like discord, specially not what it has become. They are stuck in that ecosystem and the alternatives aren't established enough to get average people to try it out/swap over.
It's a terrible platform that snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by being the only easy to use VoIP client right as Skype was dying.
The nice thing is, the lack of defining features and it's general awful qualities will make it easy to supplant when another true competitor emerges.
Not just "no" but, fuck no.
They are testing this in the Australia and UK in response to laws based by those respective governments. Discord isn’t the one to blame.
And apparently only if you encounter flagged material or have the "enable sensitive content" option active.
Yeah but who decides what sensitive content is? Is this going to make the entire platform look like shitty tik tok videos where everyone says "f*ck" and "unalive" like some insane dystopian world
What makes YT educational but not other platforms? Sounds open to abuse.
What makes YT educational but not other platforms?
the amount of money the lawmakers get
I use Discord to talk to my parents, since I live on the opposite side of the globe from them, but the second it asks me to scan my face will be the last second I ever use it...
My group of friends on Discord is keeping an eye on alternatives since we all pretty much hate Discord, and can see that it's going to get much worse. I'm sure as hell not letting Discord scan my face, that's for sure.
Matrix/Element is a nice alternative, got some rough edges in the voice-chat that could be worked out but other than that works as intended.
They can scan my DICK!