Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default “teen-appropriate” experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

  • Auth@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    you need to create an account for everything so that complaint rings hollow. Discord doesnt even have a high barrier as an account can be created in a few seconds and you can use it in the web.

    • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml
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      21 hours ago

      I didn’t have to in order to figure out if Lemmy was something I wanted to use. Neither for IRC. That makes Discord vastly inferior to both.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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        4 hours ago

        As far as internet user goes you basically arnt real. Your usage must be so beyond limited that any opinions you have are going to be massively skewed and you are entirely out of touch with the reality of what the modern internet user is.