- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.
Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.
Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.
Tbh for that use case this changes nothing, it’s a horrible change for all the usual reasons but it’s only implementing the stuff that was already the case in the UK for everyone. So age verification is needed for servers that set themselves as 18+ and for nsfw channels (and there might be some ai image scanning bs to determine if sent images are nsfw?), but for just talking to people you can supposedly still use it without age verification.
Still, it’ll probably get worse eventually.
While I understand it is non-standard, I am currently stuck with having a two person server, so this would certainly impact me.
And why do I have a two person server? Because we like to share things about a variety of subjects, and you don’t really want to get a face full of porn in public transit, all because you got a notification about the noodles I had for dinner. It’s something that has not been solved elsewhere (unless you want to deal with group chats as a workaround, but that’s more of a hack than using a server for 1:1), so Discord was the better option here in that regard.
If there is an image scan then yea it’ll be a problem, otherwise rhe server being 18+ is just a setting you have no reason to turn on, and as long as you don’t write nsfw in the channel name, discord won’t know something’s an nsfw channel either.
In any case still really unlucky this happened right after you switched lol