- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
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.



Welp that sucks time to find a new platform
Stoat is the most discordlike, Matrix is the most privacy-focused
I’ve been trying so hard to work with Matrix. Then once you get it going everything is dead.
Go for XMPP, snikket is pretty much ootb.
Those are great private messaging solutions, but not great for hosting communities.
That changes if people like you start using it.
Kinda like Lemmy.
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.
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.
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
I’ve been using it exclusively (later along with self-hosted Jitsi) since 2017.
There’s tens of millions of messages, doing just fine.
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.
Matrix! Unredacted.org is a great place for newcomers to host their first server.
First time I’ve heard of Unredacted. Do they have somewhere to show their legitimacy.
Legitimacy?
It’s just a server host mate? There’s no such thing as “legitimacy” there?
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.