Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default “teen-appropriate” experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      My community just setup a Matrix instance and we’re migrating everyone over. Several already cancelled their subscription.

      I actually ran into a colleague in a random room, who is also leaving Discord.

      It’s pretty nuts, there’s a big exodus going on.

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      1 month ago

      Anyone want to script through the signup process and feed the damn thing a bunch of AI generated faces?

      Typically when a signup page is difficult to automate, you can use a library meant for automated testing within a browser—like Selenium. Also, disposable emails services come in handy—like mailsac. If they block all the disposable email services, you can also use your iCloud+ custom email domain (if you have it) with the Allow All Incoming Messages setting turned on—then you use randomly generated user handles for each signup. A better way would be Gmail accounts so that they blend in more, but I’m not sure how to script through Gmail signup when they often require a phone number verification step.

      Not sure about the easiest way to recycle your IP, in case they monitor signups that way too. I’m sure there’s a way to overcome that too via VPN.

      If 2% of Discord users did this 50 times, that would make half of Discords user profiles and face recognition data completely fake.

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      1 month ago

      I sure did fucking sucks and they didn’t make it easy. First had to delete all servers first then delete my account. Fuck Discord.