- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
Discord announced on Monday that itās rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all usersā accounts to a āteen-appropriateā experience unless they demonstrate that theyāre adults.
Users who arenāt verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, wonāt be able to speak in Discordās livestream-like āstageā 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 wonāt be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if itās a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discordās global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be āobfuscatedā with a black screen until the user verifies theyāre an adult. Users also wonāt be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.



For an exact 1:1 replacement? Yeah, I do agree about that. If anyone looking for options doesnāt mind making some compromises it opens the doors quite a bit.
I shared in another reply a link to some alternatives. Guilded seems to be the closest to a 1:1 replacement for now.
My personal concern is having to repeat this again if the next proprietary platform becomes too big. My friend group has gone through google hangouts (it was a different time lol), the curse client, which became a Twitch product eventually and then Discord.
Iām at the point where Iām considering going back to web forums and things like teamspeak/ventrillo.
Oof. Thatās news to me. Iām seeing some stuff about Stoat pop up. Guess thatās what Iāll look into next
Let me know if you get it working with voice channels, tried tonight, no luck, couldnāt make voice channels at all. For text itās fine I guess but thatās not enough.
Will do. I need to set aside some time to see about it working with most, if not all my devices and go from there.
I did see someone else mention elsewhere that it is possible, but I donāt remember the source.
Thereās also Matrix if you donāt mind tinkering around a bit too as another option.
ya Iām setting up matrix with cloudflare tunnels now, first time using cloudflare tunnels, pretty cool. Iām not thrilled at having to depend on a third party service to connect to my own stuff, but itās better than my home IP being public.