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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 2 days ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I could just be me being a doomer, but I doubt any significant exodus will happen. People really about to drop discord? Right…

[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

There's no way in hell I'd upload my ID. Especially since discord recently had a data breach.

Though, threatening to delete (and maybe actually doing so) might make them reconsider.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

I'm with you.

Considering that age verification will only be mandatory to browse NSFW content, and that without it you can still join servers and keep calling during gameplay as per usual, my bet is that exodus won't happen. There is going to be part of people who will verify, and the unverified half either gonna leave or keep using discord just without NSFW.

Reddit exodus, unfortunately, barely had any impact. Bluesky had a good influx of new users, but it didnt kill xitter. Doubt that there anything going to happen with discord.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Yeah I think these articles are trying to push people to leave discord and not actually reporting a real trend. Even on lemmy where people are far more likely to be halfway out the door or wanting to leave discord its still a low amount saying they left.

Across the 20 servers im in i've seen 0 movement. People arent even talking about it.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 20 hours ago

I mentioned dropping discord in my gaming group chat. Five non political normies and myself. Literally nobody is fighting to stay on discord. We'll try a few alternatives and even if I've gotta fork over a few bucks a month, I will. Any site that requires id is dead to me.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 20 hours ago

That's like when people say that this time we won't pre-order games anymore, and the new call of duty is the steam bestseller a month before release.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I think people will just strive to keep their servers sfw