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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.

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[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Threaten? Bro as soon as the 2 people I care about get on Root I'm out.

[–] sandbag@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Root? What's that from what I've heard a lot of people are moving to stoat.

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[–] weedee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

https://s3nd.chat/

Made by the same team that did s3nd.pics (the imgur alternative. Under heavy Dev at the moment but has promise.

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (12 children)

The obvious solution here is for DEVICE manufacturers to add verification steps in the OS for parents to configure.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Don't threaten, do you wussies.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

“Age verification.”

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Facebook does this shit too. Tell me your account never got suspended and it asked you to give an ID to reactivate it again

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