Mu

As for humans, Persona hopes to build identity profiles for each person using the hundreds of activities they do online over time, like ordering food or scrolling social media, so Persona can more quickly verify they’re human. Song said these profiles would be tamper resistant and reusable so that they can be submitted on any site during the verification process, which he thinks people will want to use despite the obvious privacy tradeoffs. “Today you're disclosing more and more about yourself. You're just giving up so much information,” Song said. “Our dream is this idea of a self-sovereign, personally-owned portable identity.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/04/30/ai-is-making-the-internets-bot-problem-worse-this-2-billion-startup-is-on-the-front-lines/

This is who you are sending your data to when you use age verification with Discord or VRChat.

Because they aren’t using it for age, they legitimately want to track you everywhere, everyday and learn what you are doing.

Fall out of favor? They know everything to make your life hell.

happy vday from ur resident polycule /j

Pressure VRchat now, they also use Persona.

Vrchat uses persona.

Vrchat uses persona.

Persona is backed by Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel is pushing for a surveillance state in the US and appears in the Epstein files hundreds of times.

A completely normal Valentine's Day with my partner, @transpandaart.bsky.social. I love her soooo much. 💙
Pic by @transsheep.bsky.social !

SO CUTE

Transpanda, in her usual maid outfit, reaching up and holding out the cheeks to a hellhound faced giant blueberry. She's smiling lovingly, saying "Well, someone's excited~" to it. Berry flaps it's mostly sunken in hands as its body makes heavy gurgling noises in Panda's presence

🍷Happy Valentine's Day everyone, from me, Faye (It's also my alter anniversary, funny how that works!)

Celebrating our latest partner, @berrygender.bsky.social, who is, well, a blueberry plant entity! Drawn by @weirdmidnight.bsky.social and colored by us!

inflation tw blueberry tw

Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

Prettyyyy

Today’s fit

A cheesy "e-valentine" card featuring an anthro mouse smiling at the viewer, pressing her index fingers together. Text reads: it'd be 'mice' to be with you to: you from: Vi

🐁💖

This valnetines day, I hope everyone remembers that they're a horse

oh my god??

Also I'm Freaks. I wanna look at cool hot fucksex on my computer. What fucking good is any platform where I can't share all that Sorlag porn I'm commissioning. Work?? I have email for that I always had email for that. Maybe Discord can just fuck off?? That's my idea. My big idea is Fuck Off

Making waves?

Discord lied.

they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.

“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

Trans people existing does nothing negative to your life you crybaby bitch

Mu, an orange dragon filling her overalls to the brim with her full belly and wide hips, confidently looms over Praxis, a nervous avali about half her height. She asks: "That buffet's finished~ ready for the next one?~" as he giggles, holding her belly up as it gurgles and sloshes around him.

what better way to treat myself than to treat my girlfriend? thank you @iammutoo.bsky.social for this belated birthday gift 🧡🧡🧡

🎨 - @transsheep.bsky.social

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.

Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

rodney dangerfield

They're calling HRT a "sex-rejecting procedure" now. I guess that means my wife gives me HRT every night!

what a lovely derg...

I would not call this a walkback at all, more like they are mansplaining to us that we are overreacting and what they want to do isnt that bad - still keep up the heat tho.

When you realize the crux of most companies' more big-brother-ish or authoritarian type plans hinge on people -not doing anything-. Or us being haplessly inactive, you realize things fall apart and fast when we do actually show up to fuck their shit.

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)"

I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.

It's not actually about the kids.

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)

Lineup of Maddie, Vivian, and Miira. Their designs are more or less identical to before, but with some changes to proportions.

We worked on some new renders of some of us!

(Maddie will have a hoodle alt too ofc)

8th of February marks 5 years together with @maddieringtail.bsky.social 🦊💙

I still remember that morning where I walked aimlessly around in Pokémon legends Arceus for 3 hours paralyzed by the realization I was deeply in love before sending my love letter

I drew Allison Hart from @sonokido.bsky.social's comic, Ventura City Drifters! She herself isn't a Drifter ofc. I kinda just made up an outfit for her. Read the comic!! vcdcomic.carrd.co

Damn that shit was harrowing

This was dark but really thoughtful! I liked it a lot