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Why is everything going into the shitter, holy fuck man

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)

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time to be loud about this terrible decision.

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Listening to Dennis was absolutely insufferable lol, I can't believe people like him exist.

Antis gonna anti, keep it up tho man fuck the haters

that you have PERSONAL work to do on tolerating discomfort and regulating your nervous system without relying on others to change or do it for you. This work is often PRIVATE, therapeutic, and will serve you across communities as an activist and neighbor

lastly and most disrespectful point: the world does not care that you are traumatized. Your specific experience with grooming does not make you a spokesperson or expert on censorship laws or trauma. if you are someone who is constantly activated by things they view or read online, it should indicate

wild how atm the most dangerous people to ally with in a shared community is NOT the perps and bad actors, but moreso the “anti” and fragility mindset held by many young artists who project their discomfort as objectively immoral. Unwittingly regurgitating puritanical fascist rhetoric

Not really lol

a group of people are standing in a room and one of them says let 's go ALT: a group of people are standing in a room and one of them says let 's go

Hype

ay keep it up! good stuff m8

I give it a Hell yeah/10

If someone is making a horny mod they are *already* not only not engaging in that sort of still-clinging-to-Gamergate Incel behavior, they are actively engaging in an approach that undermines that behavior and upholds the opt-in consent nature of horny media.

I know people are stressed but come on.

Just as a general point of order.

The thing gamergate incels want is not horny in games.

It is that their personal tastes be hegemonically universalized across all media.

They HATE IT when you suggest they go download horny mods, because then it means people are *choosing* it.

Maybe it's unwise-posting to say this right now, but I think anyone seeing this has enough distance now for it not to backfire...

"I'm just defending a trans woman by accusing another trans woman of misogyny for giving a character boobs, because boobs make her a sex object" is some crypto-TERF BS

This take was so unhinged I thought I was on Twitter for a second

The mod creator was a trans woman lol, tf you on about?

I checked their Twitter to see how they were doing and it really makes me happy to see they are still posting mods for new characters amidst all these chud shitheads attacking her.

Glad to know the haters have not gotten to them and they are still kickin 🤘

Agreed, that was an awful take

The mod creator is getting death threats, r*pe threats and getting called a pedo/zoophile over on the bird app dude. Not the best move from Parker.

The person who made that mod is a queer person, also that is the most tamest mod imaginable. Nothing compared to nazi chuds who just turn want all women in games to wear bikinis and have DD cups (no not mods, they just want devs to make all women look like this)

There is a MASSIVE difference here.

Skeets like these are why I love Bluesky, just an absolute truth nuke right here

>Random furry choosing to mod their game with somethint sexy, on their own device just for the hell of it

vs.

>Right wing chud wanting to make all video game characters look like sex dolls because they hate minorities and want to "destroy woke" or whatever

Parker: "They're the same picture!"

I swear to god the “Avatar has had no cultural impact” people are trolling at this point. At least come up with something new to say if you hate something and need to talk about it all the time.

How lol, are you guys even real accounts or bots

Genuinely have never heard anyone, even leftists call it that. Very strange

Yeah just hate farming

Damn~ 😵‍💫🥴

Honestly it’s the hyper morality of puriteens associating media people watch with their morals as a person. Like we need to stop calling people who like a cartoon problematic, the show can have criticisms, but this means nothing for the person who likes it.

Sadly people are too afraid to be fans.

Those hips don't lie ❤️