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And we love him for that.

All good! Thats the plan, and waiting for my Eyes On Me to ship my way too. 🫡 Hopin' you've got some new hats too!

You plan to be at FWA? I picked up an Embrace Change shirt at MFF but it was the wrong size. 😅. Still wear your Own Worst Enemy hat everywhere tho!

Also, importantly, Stoat has a mobile Android app while Fluxer does not. Anyone know of that's changing soon?

Current experience with Discord alternatives:

I do seem to be getting more friend reqs on Fluxer over Stoat, which is surprising, as Stoat seems to have a bigger user base...also, Fluxer seems to go down more often due to its massive user influx.

Still haven't decided where to make a server yet.

There's too many people who think that just because Discord dropped Persona, that now everything is fine.

...No chief, they still very much intent to get your ID and/or biometics just like before. Just because its gonna be a DIFFERENT evil company doing it changes nothing.

Moneys so fuckin' tight with bills, life, and saving what I can for FWA.

...but I STILL can't get the obsession of getting a suit out of my head. Dammit.

With Discord pulling its mass surveillance bullshit, I'm now on both Fluxer (top) and Stoat (bottom)!

Do yourself a favor: Get on an alternative service. You don't have to delete your Discord, but it sure wouldn't hurt.

YouTube video by UFD Tech Discord’s Age-Gating Gets Worse

I'm so tired of fighting Big Tech. I miss when the internet was fun.

With whats going on with Discord and with the new shit dropping about Persona, I can no long in good faith even suggest people AV on VRChat.

I'm so tired. Have some dystopic nightmare info.

youtu.be/OY7j-UODAH0?...

They're both very similar in the fact they're Discord-like, however Fluxer has its own version of Nitro is seems (call Plutonium), which Stoat just has all the features out in the open. There more under the hood but I am very surface level with them so far.

With Discord pulling its mass surveillance bullshit, I'm now on both Fluxer (top) and Stoat (bottom)!

Do yourself a favor: Get on an alternative service. You don't have to delete your Discord, but it sure wouldn't hurt.

I am officially 100% locked in for FWA! Now the struggle is saving cash to actually spend there, and getting a decent fit going...

No more lookin' like I just walked out of my 9-to-5 to be there (although tbh it was kinda true for MFF). Related note, quality leather jewelry is a bit rare online!

I am finally opening up commissions! if you are interested in anything i offer please leave me a DM here.

Taking our RAM and SSDs weren't enough, now AI is even coming for our fucking spinning rust.

As the 2 year anniversary of kiwi nights approaches its important to remember our roots

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus Discord's Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance | ID Verification, Palantir, & Thiel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxs...

So in terms of Discord alternatives, what ones have your interest so far?

RAPTOR DRIVES! The dopest shit you could get before SSDs became mainstream...should try to get a Velociraptor next to add to the collection. Throw some of those drives in RAID 0 and they were almost as good as SSDs!

LIGHT UP THE NIGHT

Oh and I forgot to mention the one I've seen online most of all; Stout! Was formerly known as Revolt and seems to be the discord alternative most people online are talking about. Need to check them all out once I'm out of my work week.

This is why I settled on making SFW and NSFW accounts. Follow different things on both and hope to keep this feed clean enough to open in public. 😅

Even before I got a chance to do anything, my friend groups are already scrambling for Discord alternatives. The big ones I've heard from my inner circle have been Teamspeak and Root, a discord alternative I hadn't heard of before. Already have some friends setting up there.

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)

I absolutely do not trust Discord with my government ID and/or biometrics. I am legit looking for proper alternatives now.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

I warned people this was coming and got called a doomer.

Welp, either rev up some good alternatives or get ready to give your full deets for surveillance.

www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

PLEASE give me a release without tank controls.

I YEARN.

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