The new CEO of Discord is from Israel and has worked for Activision Blizzard.
Israel has a high proportion of AI companies, so it’s likely that one of these will be used for processing age verification data.
If he says the face scan will not leave your device and the ID will be immediately deleted, then I have every reason to believe that the Israeli government (who is currently committing genocide) will have full access to this data and will use it for even more war crimes.
Count me in as one of the people who quits Discord over this. For my use case which is gaming with my friends we may as well just use Telegram for voice chat plus screen sharing.
Uh, didn’t they say the scanning happens locally on your phone?
Oh hey, the obvious thing we all knew was going to happen, happened.
Can’t wait for absolutely nothing to be done to prevent this from happening again, especially as they push to make this mandatory for all users…
I’ve used it a couple times, what a dumpster fire of an app.
Walked away years ago and refused to use it since.
Same. It looks like it was made for one thing, with parts added over time to add functionality. If you were there from the start, using it regularly, it would be fine, but to jump in now…
I will never give them my ID.
I sure hope this is the end of Discord. Maybe only 10% of people will rage quit rather than show their ID, but if every group has one in 10 people they invite say “nah, that’s not happening” and everyone has to admit they’re probably in the right, it might make some difference.
"Nevermind the man behind the curtain folks, because it’s a different man this time around!’
I suppose the next question is where will everyone go? If they wanted to keep kids safe this ain’t it because they’ll go somewhere else anyways. So it’s a lose/lose for everyone.
Possibly a win for companies if they want to harvest data/sell it.
Uh…anywhere? There are plenty of alternatives that are less bloated and less shitty and faster.
I honestly don’t even know why people use it.
The only times I’ve ever used Discord are for things that really should have been on a forum, issue tracker, or something like a lemmy community in the first place.
I hope this causes a return to sanity, but I’m not holding my breath.
Ima be honest here. The last messaging service I used was Facebook back in 2012 prior to discord. And prior to Facebook was MSN messenger lol I really just don’t know what’s available. I’ll have to go do some reading
IRC is still alive and well, team speak for voice chats. Hell, Nextcloud even has these, as well as video calls.
I suppose the next question is where will everyone go?
time to go back to Xfire, i guess.
Shit, I forgot avout Xfire. Mumble and Teamspeak are still going too
yeah i actually just discovered this revival right before posting my comment. It’s really neat! Xfire and Discord are always linked in my mind, because i literally first installed Discord because my friends were moving over from Xfire. These days, Steam Chat can do almost everything that Xfire did, so there isn’t REALLY a reason for it to exist. But i love seein that ancient UI.
I had like 2 friends back in my CS 1.6 days that insisted on Xfire, but I paid for a Mumble server shortly after that. Might self host one again…
So, after reading several sources on this, it sounds like it’s going to be harder to access furry hentai, which one shouldn’t be doing on Discord in the first place.
That has never been a private space. You want E2EE for anything spicy.
Don’t think this can’t happen to you normies. Once the weirdos are dealt with you’re next!
Until this comes for every porn platform
Haha haha haha haha haha
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