Technology

Ok, rare to see such an explicit kind of Great Filter / Idiot Test play out at scale, but here we go!

Anybody who is still using Discord after it requires you to personally directly link your drivers liscense or w/e to it, well, they're fine with every government apparatus of any kind knowing everything they say and do on Discord.

Good luck to those glorious morons, truly, good luck.

You are going to need it.

Super, duper hope you're not queer or trans or neurodivergent.

... you... think the 23 concentration camps currently being built by ICE / FEMA are ... only for migrants?

Brown people?

Well you trust the current fascist regime a lot more than I do.

I hope the trick with photo modes in games still works. If not I will be leaving discord despite many good friends and communities I have on it.

Stoat it is then.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally

So in other words, if you only use Discord as a messaging app and for small servers between friends, this won't affect you?

I honestly have no idea why Discord started trying to push itself as some normal social media like Facebook, and why people started treating it as such. Discord was a glorified telephone line with gifs and web links. I don't need some manufactured sense of "community" among thousands of people who happen to watch the same YouTuber as me.

If that's true then rest in peace discord. Or rest in hell I should say.

I could smell the enshitification tidal wave coming yet I doubt my friends will migrate to anything else.

The day where platforms enshittify so bad they implode can't come soon enough

I prefer Discworld.

LOL. Deleted my Discord.

They're banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it's insane.

Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?

I've been paying for nitro (for some reason). Yeah I'm dumb. But I just cancelled it, so I guess I'm getting smarter

I trust the scammers who call me daily with my ID more than a Discord third party vendor. They just wanted a google play card. Discord wants personal info. This age of censorship is terrible. If it was about about protecting kids just get parents to use modern parental block controls.

Already migrated to self hosted IRC to get away from Discord and this proves that it was the right choice

Some friends invited me to play Minecraft and talk through this shit app called Discord, in the first time I don't like it, but now is definitely not an option. Which others apps do you recommend for this?

Now Discord users are furious and canceling Nitro. I wonder where they will go if the update gets released.

Luckily i never understood what discord was for, so i never joined. But yet another company that will crash and burn because they hate consumer privacy.