Alec Foisy

If you're reading this you should go get yourself a cookie or something tasty to eat or go play a game you enjoy or go watch a video that makes you laugh because you survived Monday and that is already good enough

Treat yourself, you're doing good enough

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)

Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship.

Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)

I always thought he was a wasp, since I know you love wasps.

Or was he a wasp originally before you changed him?

Don't really want to talk about Discord, enough going around

Instead I just want to remind you

You have friends who only have close online connections. Please be considerate. Do not scare the hell out of them right now that they'll be abandoned.

Talk of going scorched earth scares many people

Repeating what other people said but I’d advise that people not move off discord immediately because they’re known to backtrack on this kind of stuff. I remember they wanted to do nft integration at one point lmao

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I'm not going to join another platform to see y'all abandon it two weeks later.

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My honest reaction to the latest Discord bullshit.

Proud member of the "never had nitro even when it's free" club.

Art of a blue striped unicorn with rainbow patterns on their neck and legs rearing with a fierce open-mouthed expression. while shattering a red crown with their large golden horn. Behind them are broken black cage bars in front of a dark red background. The words Exist, Persist, Resist, are seen next to the unicorn.

Our existence is resistance 🏳️‍🌈

I noticed you drew Zoe looking more like a Chinese Crested than a Cavalier, which she's supposed to be.

Since Gooseworx confirmed there will be no romance in The Amazing Digital Circus, I wonder if anyone's ever called her a romance-hating coward like they did when Disney cut the Starboy romance out of Wish.

I’m guessing it would rely a lot on dialogue-based humor like cartoons from the time to make up for the limited animation.

I take comfort in the fact that billionares are as mortal as any other human, and that REALLY pisses them off.

Glad to see my commissions helping you out!

Hey, you, yeah you.
It's NEVER too late to live your authentic life.

Signed, someone who's only just started their true life in their 30's.

Even if you start when you're 80 or older, fucking DO it. Bits hurt like hell, and the world is awful, but it's YOUR life. Sending all the love and courage.

I just remembered Apophis, that asteroid that was supposed to hit us around 2029. Turns out, nope. we will be spared.

I feel like that's the cycle of apocalyptic traditions. Years of Buzzfeed articles hyping it up, only for the season finale to be satisfyingly underwhelming.

Katy was actually the inspiration for Kixx Kangaroo, a character in my story idea "Cereal Anonymous" which is about a support group for cereal mascots.

Art, design and name suggestion credit goes to @laytonesquemari.bsky.social.

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

Against a yellow/tan background, there is a young Australopithecus with his three animal friends - he's petting a black backed jackal and holding a cute small ball python in his arm, while a snarky southern ground hornbill looks up at them

Commission for @hobbestiger.bsky.social :D Characters for a story of his set in Africa during the Pliocene - it was a fun to draw a prehistoric ancestor (he's is a young Australopithecus called Spark) and his animal friends ❤️
#Commission #prehistoric #hominid #hornbill #jackal #python #ancestor

i know ur struggling but i’m here to tell u that u will be okay im proud of you as a ducking gets a closeup

UPDATE: hey, would you look at that. Adobe Animate is staying, and no longer being discontinued.

This shows that bullying corporations can always work.

A drawing of a ghost cat snuggling with a black cat. The caption reads, "you matter, and you always will"

♥

I heard some good things about this guy. He's responsible for spearheading newer Muppets stuff at the Parks division. And he sat down with cast members who were laid off during the Covid and comfort them. From the sounds of it, he's the "Michael Eisner" type that Disney really needs right now.

If anyone else wants an Adobe Animate alternative, I can’t recommend Moho enough. It’s affordable, it’s efficient, it’s been used in feature films from Cartoon Saloon like Wolfwalkers, and the best part…NO Ai whatsoever.

Iger did initially undo most of the damage caused by Eisner when HE first took over.

Something thats very sweet to me about Hazbin is that people who are born like decades or even centuries apart, who would have never met in life, meet in death and form friendships or fall in love. Its like what if ur best friend was born 50 years after u died? No worries. You'll find each other.