Discord Issues

[ysabetwordsmith]

Discord is planning a radical violation of privacy for all users.  It will require facial recognition or ID in order to escape designation as teen with account restrictions.  This is ineffective and risky.  Many people are upset by the violation of privacy because so many platforms have been hacked to extract that valuable information.

Some Discord users are already abandoning the platform and moving to Dreamwidth or others.  Please pass the word around Dreamwidth to your friends on Discord to see if this platform appeals to them.  This post has many resources for newcomers about how to use Dreamwidth..

Comments

Re: Thoughts

[soc_puppet]

>>There's no law yet requiring them to do that.

Not necessarily, unfortunately; denise just posted a BlueSky thread about the issue over here.

Discord has done an incredibly bad job at transparency with this, which is making everything a whoooole lot worse, but according to Denise, Discord is also member of NetChoice and "they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined". Also, platforms are "having to scramble to implement age verification for the states and countries that pass these laws, often with little to no implementation period (SC just signed one with immediate effect!)"

It's still shitty as hell, and I'm not going to share my info with them, but I'm allowing Discord a bit more grace because of this thread. Again, things would have been so much better if Discord went with Dreamwidth's style of transparency, but here we are.