We are on the brink of like 90% literal state media

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Fuck you discord!!

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

#AbolishICE

I recommend buying a kobo, STAY AWAY FROM AMAZON. Also this book is really good! I recommend it.

Vote in a scammer, expect to be scammed

Of course he would, trump is corrupt himself

Just release the files Jfc!

Please save Android!: keepandroidopen.org

This is very weird and on par what dictators do

Whole place is an elite circlejerk

nothing else to say but fuck you!

3.5" floppy disks arranged in a manner to resemble the Transgender Pride Flag

trans rights are human rights 💾🏳️‍⚧️✊ #floppydiskart #transgender

"Degradation" and "fantasy" are so vague, but to see cat ears and fairies specifically mentioned let's me know they intend to be extremely broad with how they interpret it.

This is "degenerate art" levels of censorship. We need ppl to start calling in the numbers we had a month ago about this

PIGS

I need 148 sign-ups to make rent and cover bills this month.

You get literally 1000s of posts, over 900 recipes for £5 and more added every day.

16% off if you sign up annually!

Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.

This is so sick holy shit

It’s all going to billionaires

Donald himself never had to go without food, just look at him.

The fact its a non conservative judge doing this just highlights how disconnected from reality these 9 useless fucks are and what a farce this body is, they have no idea that people actually need food during a 48 hour period. They should be forcibly shown what not eating for that time is like.

I made this recently, I think it’s pretty accurate

Absolutely fucking disgusting, fuck this country.

Every single person in the trump administration is a ghoul.

They both merged

Hey I saw you liking my comment and I know this very weird but you seem very familiar, was you ever on Google plus?