Age verification for all.
  • mechanicalAnt@piefed.zipEnglish
    35·
    26 天前

    I don’t trust discord with what little I formation I’ve gave them so far. Definitely not giving them my ID or a scan of my face.

    • ttyybb@lemmy.world
      9·
      26 天前

      But they pinky promise the face scan is not facial recognition and that it’s immediately deleted and never leaves your device.

      • Untold1707@lemmy.zip
        4·
        26 天前

        Usability is good in my opinion. They’ve spent a lot of time on the UI over the past couple years. The mobile Element X apps are excellent now IMO. But the two things that prevent matrix/Element from being a good discord replacement are:

        1. No Mumble-like voice chat. They have Zoom-like conference calling now, but no voice channels.
        2. Search is either non-existent (mobile clients) or is awful. It’s somehow worse than Discord’s search! I know it’s because the search needs to work on-device because of E2EE, but unfortunately it’s still a minus point vs Discord.
          • ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕚0𝕤@social.ggbox.fr
            3·
            26 天前

            Seconding this, just use mumble. It’s self-hosted free and open source software, easy on resources, provides very low latency, and it’s very stable and reliable.

            The client might look a little dated but I still love it. I don’t care for stupid electron apps, which every modern application seems to be.

  • SpaceCrystal@lemmy.ml
    17·
    26 天前

    Yeah, you go ahead & do that, & watch how many people will jump ship to other alternatives while you lose a lot of money & subscriptions, especially when you’ve been hacked before.

    People have found other alternatives to TikTok, & they’ll do the same with Discord.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    26 天前

    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.

    Shrug

    I’m not using discord for porn, so I’m not going to lose sleep. Will simply live with a “teen” account until my groups migrate to a better service.

    But you’ll get my biometrics from my cold dead hands.

    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.

    GOOD

    Crazy they didn’t implement this years ago. Discord is bloated with fake user spam.

    • Anas@lemmy.world
      1·
      25 天前

      The last point is already implemented, and as someone who regularly has to get DMs from strangers, I have those options off. I guess now I can’t do that.

  • tehWrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    26 天前

    However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.>

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
      7·
      26 天前

      that’s probably not much better though. nothing good will come from discord scanning and judging everything we say on it.

  • EstraDoll [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    26 天前

    in other news: next month i will be attempting to bypass discord’s “AI” powered security features. I expect to overcome them in 4 minutes with a pic of an ID i found on the internet

  • mcv@lemmy.zip
    9·
    25 天前

    I’m not against age restrictions, but letting every site brew their own method is a really bad idea. I’m not going to upload my legal ID to every random site; that’s a recipe for identity theft, and it’s a really bad idea to teach people that that’s normal or acceptable.

    And age guessing through facial recognition is incredibly unreliable. My 16 year old son has already been accepted as 18+ somewhere. I had a full moustache at 14. Others are blessed with a babyface well into their 30s.

    The only right way to do this, is if governments provide their citizens with an eID that any site can ask “is this person 18+?” and get an accurate answer without any other identifiable info. And if you don’t want the government to know what sites you visit, have sites route the request through a proxy.

    But instead everybody’s got to cobble together their own improvised system that we just have to trust blindly is not going to sell our data.

    • M1k3y@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      25 天前

      And if you don’t want the government to know what sites you visit, have sites route the request through a proxy.

      Actually, no on the fly communication with the issuer is required for selective disclose. You just need a signed document with individually salted hashes of different properties and you can create a zero knowledge proof non-interactively. Zero knowledge meaning that truely nothing but the disclosed property (age > 18, County == DE, or whatever) is communicated to anyone.

      Theres a lot of other cool stuff that can be done with zero knowledge digital identity wallets. You could for example hash your pubkey together with the service providers pk and disclose that as a per service ID, but not reveal your pk. This allows linkability within one service (as a login method for example) while preventing cross service linkability.

    • PleasantPeasant@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      26 天前

      it’s fine as long as you dont have the server marked as 18+

      also, supposedly they will be having an ai determine people who are 18+ so you might not even need to upload anything

      still, if this leaves too sour of a taste in your mouth the alternatives i can think of off the top of my head are: teamspeak (although i dont think they have teamspeak 6 server files available yet?), riot! (now called stoat apparently?), mumble, matrix, and jitsi meet

      oh yeah if you’re ok seperating the chat and voice app i really like deltachat for chatting in the group