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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Well Discord has become more than just Vent server alternative, people use it for more than just game chat. There’s a lot of local communities that have discord servers and use them to organize events and chat, and so you end up knowing a bunch of people through discord. Alternatives can be difficult in that circumstance. Like sure you can get their phone numbers or whatever if you know them well enough, maybe start a group text, but it doesn’t necessarily equate. If you run a server I can see it being wildly difficult to move a whole community off of Discord and getting people to use an alternative platform. Personally I’m all for moving to Matrix if I can convince my D&D group, but those local communities, the only option is to basically to drop out of them and lose connections.
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That’s true. And the reason is most people - still, in 2026 - can’t figure out how computers work. Not that they try to. It’s a low-level social madness that causes catastrophic global changes.
if you are some asocial hermit living in a basement, who cares about neither real life nor digital connections, that may be true for you.
most people live in a society and engage in some communities, these have some means of communication and since it’s 21st century, they are usually digital. and these communities are not centered around you and few dozens/hundreds/thousands people are not going to leave the tool they all know and switch to another tool just because you told them to.
if i lose access to my school’s discord, my ability to communicate with my classmates and ask for a help or information on anything school related is going to be significantly crippled, to the point where i am not going to do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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yeah, i am not so important that few thousand people would change their habits to accommodate me. when you outgrow kindergarten, you will find out that neither are you.
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