Discord Distances Itself From Persona Age Verification After User Backlash (theverge.com) 26
Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash. From a report: In an emailed statement to The Verge, Discord's head of product policy, Savannah Badalich, confirms the company "ran a limited test of Persona in the UK where age assurance had previously launched and that test has since concluded."
After Discord announced plans to implement age verification globally starting next month, users across social media accused Discord of "lying" about how it plans on handling face scans and ID uploads. Much of the criticism was directed toward Discord's partnership with Persona, an age verification provider also used by Reddit and Roblox.
After Discord announced plans to implement age verification globally starting next month, users across social media accused Discord of "lying" about how it plans on handling face scans and ID uploads. Much of the criticism was directed toward Discord's partnership with Persona, an age verification provider also used by Reddit and Roblox.
All of this (Score:2)
All of this is just so they can walk into a courtroom and claim they tried to put safety rails on their child grooming services.
Right now on another service that uses age verification I'm dealing with a user who has dozens of age verified accounts that they claim they made going into spirit halloween and taking pictures with masks on, I'm not at all sure how that's supposed to work but on the other hand he certianoy does possess the proof that he's thwarted it somehow.
I should mention that this guy is quit
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Most of the discord users you encounter are adults.
If you get on a vrchat related discord they have to go through stupid lengths to keep kids out or keep it child safe.
Persona & its reach (Score:5, Informative)
In case you aren't aware of Persona and what's involved when these companies use them, someone stepped through verification with LinkedIn which uses Persona [thelocalstack.eu].
They outline exactly what was collected and communicated, and with whom [withpersona.com].
If you ever consider verifying with them (indirectly), I'd highly recommend taking a look a what's at stake.
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Not to mention Persona having ties with Palantir and Peter Thiel. https://fortune.com/2026/02/24... [fortune.com]
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I don't want Eternal Punishment [wikipedia.org] just to use a chat program.
Not that this moves the needle (Score:3)
What XMPP clients are any good? (Score:2)
The author of an article about ditching Discord [alopex.li] claims that XMPP has "lots of very mediocre clients out there." What would be high-quality XMPP clients for Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android?
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Gajim
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Gajim or Dino on Linux, Conversations on Android. Quicksy for a "Whatsapp like" experience and Snikket for a bundle of self-hosting server and clients that can easily connect your friends to your own server. I think Monal on iOS.
If you want a Discord-Like client, have a look at converse.js in inverse mode. That provides a similar sidebar-left/chat-right interface: https://conversejs.org/screens... [conversejs.org]
I think they had an electron version, but that's outdated. But you should be able to use it in every browser and
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Basically every argument in favor of discord or slack boils down to someone not wanting to pick or configure some fringe chatting functionality.
In the case of scrollback it's replaced making documentation or file repositories in many places so its easy to declare that a net loss.
Tab for verification (Score:4, Funny)
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Ask them what their favorite age verification question was from Leisure Suit Larry.
unlucky (Score:2)
It seems Discord is really unlucky with their partners. Unfortunate. Truly. Because they really care about your privacy.
Discord used for child-grooming (Score:2)
https://x.com/bx_on_x/status/2... [x.com]
Things like this may cost them big if they don't do age verification.
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Re: Discord used for child-grooming (Score:2)
If text-only communications media would get the government off our backs wrt to saving the children then I'd be all for it, but we ALL know that's just one of the 4 justifications they trot out for everyfuckingthing: women/children trafficking and CSAM, drugs, weapons, and terrorism. We better all start greasing up now because that camera is going up our asses either way.
won't someone think of the children? (Score:5, Insightful)
Ok, that's enough. Stop thinking about the children so much, it's creepy.
Why are we sometimes prepared to disrupt the ordinary activities of millions of adults to protect a handful of hypothetical children. But at the same time we have politicians running our respective countries that protect pedos or even war criminals.
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And US data collection in other countries
How social media cause harm to children
etc etc etc etc.
And just remember US laws end at the US boarder, don't like it, don't live, work, or do business in those countries. Easy as.
Colorado Bill Requires ID Checks embedded into OS (Score:2)
Colorado Senate Bill Would Require Apple and Google to Embed ID Checks into the Operating Systems
https://reclaimthenet.org/colo... [reclaimthenet.org]
Smart People (Score:2)
Smart people distanced themselves from Discord. They did so, long before this nonsense hit the news.
Common Sense Control (Score:1)
All future social media platforms will perform age verification via a breathalyzer test which requires the user to down two shots of whiskey and rip a Marlboro Red as part of the process. Thank you for your attention in this matter.