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Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

The AI being put into everything, and the AI that's useful, are two distinct things. Research scientists aren't using LLMs to invent new kinds of vaccines, and never will.

Oh 👀

bsky.app/profile/bolt... to everyone in the comments and the reposts go to this repost and contact discord

this is not about children/teenager safety, they’re just want to steal your privacy

i'm not uploading my id to @discord.com are they fucking dumb

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

Sorry to vent on main but I'm just so sick of being a grown-ass adult online who can't openly enjoy talking about or drawing sex stuff even in completely adult spaces where all minors are completely banned just because everyone has gotta be such fascist controlling fucking babies about it

What if I listened very intently 👀

“Is my fanfiction good” “will a lot of people read/like my fanfiction” GIRL FORGET ABOUT ALL THAT FOR A SECOND your top aspiration when writing fanfiction should be making it so weird, someone will read it at 16 and never forget it as long as they live

“Languages change over time as words get redefined by common use” and “it sucks when ppl take a really useful word, change the meaning, leaving no current applicable word for the original meaning” are both true statements

Happy birthday and a happy life to our baby I.N! His talent is as great as our love for him. May his life be full of health, joy, and may it be long! 🥳🦊💕🐷🐰

@dailyjeongin.bsky.social

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

Stray Kids instagram and tiktok update

#아이엔 #I.N #アイエン

babygirl

He can whine and pretend to hate it all he wants but that fond smile at the end is TELLING ON HIM

"me and the bad bitch I pulled by being weird" but you can't decide which way around it is for minsung bc they're both weird

i love them so much. kiss MORE

Lee Know (right) and I.N (left) selca. I.N is wearing a black jacket and showing his teeth and braces. Lee Know is wearing a black denim jacket layered over a black hoodie and holding a peace sign with one hand next to his cheek on the opposite side of his face.

Lee Know (left) and I.N (right). Lee Know is wearing a white shirt, olive green crossbody bag, and gold chain necklace. There’s a bandaid on his cheek. I.N is wearing a white shirt, black cropped jacket, olive green pants, and gold chain necklace. I.N is tilting his head cutely while holding a peace sign.

Lee Know (right) and I.N (left). I.N is wearing a black leather vest and a silver choker. There’s a black hoop ring in the center of his bottom lip. He’s holding a microphone and making a peace sign with the same hand. Lee Know is wearing a black leather jacket over a white shirt, black leather pants, and black leather gloves. There are two pieces of medical tape on his eyebrow. He’s making a peace sign.

Lee Know (right) and I.N (left). I.N is wearing a beige knit sweater over a white shirt with graphic designs and blue jeans. He’s making a peace sign with one hand and pouting his lips cutely. Lee Know is wearing an off white linen shirt over a t-shirt and blue jeans. He’s sitting down on a beige sofa and leaning over his propped arm to get in the frame while making a peace sign with his opposite hand.

Happy birthday, Jeongin!

@dailyjeongin.bsky.social

#leeknow #I.N #straykids #skz

Fanfiction doesn’t exist to be “good” it exists because something went horribly wrong with you while you were watching a tv show and you’re gripped by madness

this is sending me

chan can you sneak into every live this year and kiss them? thanks in advance

Minho Instagram story with a open illustrated book in Korean.

Minho tagging Taemin in a book that says: "If you're a champion at losing things, you should just tie them up with a string." 😭🤣

something for the birthday of the Maknae on Top

#I_N #skz #yangjeongin #아이엔 #straykids #drawing #sketchbook

I mean if you would like to share hc style..... 👀👉👈

Of what now? 👀

There's always time 👀

this is still insanity to me 😮‍💨 the suit pants, the glowy skin, the hip rolls, i-

i would die for him

Taemin world tour announcement just dropped