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Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users
www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-bringing-back-age-verification-for-millions-of-users
Replying to @Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world
Discord is perhaps the most unnecessary and readily replaceable service and they don’t seem to realize how short their time is
Replying to @spacegoat@lemmy.world
It’s absolutely possible to build a discord replacement
The real issue is convincing people to move
Replying to @KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz
This.
A friend of mine went through the trouble of setting up a whole Matrix server with the Sable client when the first rumblings of this came up late last year.
Everything was made and readily available for everyone one we knew to move over. They just had to make an account and that was it.
Nobody came.
Nobody fucking came.
Its just me and two of my other friends on there, because despite everyone crying how Discord is doing something bad, when it comes to it they have nothing but excuses.
“But all my friends are here…”
“But there’s a videogame community I’m part of…”
“I don’t understand. It’s too complicated…”
“I’ll move if it really gets bad…”
ICE in America is using AI profiling to get rid of or straight up murder peoole, trained on data which includes everything the age verification spyware in Discord sends directly to them. But they don’t care. Their convenience is lore important than the lives of people.
So fuck them.
Replying to @Tattorack@lemmy.world
Yeah it’s difficult convincing people due to sunken cost.
You could be chatting on a better platform that offers everything discord offers for free but you’d have to convince your friends and the servers you frequent to all move.
It’s not about the platform itself as much as it’s about the communities that are all already there.
Even the one person I know who is terrified of losing her account and preemptively set up alternatives on other platforms still won’t leave until something forces her.