Brother, I hope so.

I feel like this is something the autistic brain notices a lot, and may regular folks not so much.

A pedantic critique that offers nothing to the conversation

Yes. I have a hard no for participating willingly in expansion of mass surveillance, censorship and propaganda.

And that’s ultimately what this move supports. It was no surprise to find out all the shady aspects following the announcement, but I had already burned Discord out of my life the day they announced their genius idea.

Its my enshittification red line. I will quit your product without hesitation and find another way. I will never go back

Discord gets paid for user’s data and they just lost a ton of users. That’s why they are “cutting ties” with Persona.

I suspect its more of a temporary reaction and they will reframe this age-verification and the related data collection and try again later.

Yep. Its wasn’t even a question

The leopard of consequences is hungry for tech oligarch faces.

Eat, you majestic creature. And godspeed.

Because they dont have a single, fully-qualified penis amongst them all to use to convince anyone.

Sub-penis is the best they can threaten with.

Wooooowwwww. It’s being used for exactly what I said it would be~

I know a lot if us are not even surprised in the least, but i hope some of the head-in-the-sand naysayer motherfuckers wake up and learn something.

When they say the images wont leave your computer. Its because they converted it to facial geometry. They dont want the images because they take too much storage.

When they say they will delete it after processing, processing includes sending a copy to whoever else theyve agreed to share it with. Palantir, im sure here, maybe through an intermediary data broker.

I deleted my discord account immediately when the news of this face-check-age-check broke

Yep. Too late, i fucking deleted that shit without hesitation or regret.

I use it daily, but I’ve now deleted my account and will move on.

I dont put up with this shit.

Control the conversations in the digital third spaces. Crush ideas, punish those who are a threat to “authority”

Yeah I hear you. I just dont think the pressure is actually building on them for that rn.

People’s attention is on higher profile issues in that arena and it looks like those cases will go on and on without resolution.

Imma call it a 100% smokescreen for Discord, but absolutely you know the only possible reason they might ever care to do anything to deal with the problem (which this new measure does not)

Translation: we wont age verify you or collect the biometrics if we already have what we want through other channels (federated SSO, data sharing agreements)

Your facial geometry wont be needed if facebook already has it and your discord identity is linked to that one(through your permission or not)

No. That is an issue for all online social spaces to contend with. It wont be solved by blocking mature content servers/channels.

“Won’t someone please think of the children” is the pablum that you will accept so they can monetize your biometric data with the data you create and consume on their platform.

You really think they give a shit about kids safety?

Ok. Well I will delete my account then.

This kind of enshittification is intolerable. The reason this exists is solely to tie your online behaviour to your real life identity.

“They” want to control people’s conversations in the digital third spaces. And to find ways to punish you for the thoughts they disapprove of. Discord is happy to sell that data to whomever is buying it.

Oh well. More fediverse, please!

… but it was already too late. They alienated their users completely and Linux is soooo nice.

Because we live in a binary world with nothing other than absolute polarity.

I hate LLM, i also use LLM.

How can it be true?! The hypocrisy!

PornHUB intro music plays, but morphs into Unsolved Mysteries

ROBERT STACK ENTERS AS HOST

Tonight: a mystery born not of shadowy alleyways or coded dossiers… but of a home computer. A shared machine. And a series of fateful downloads.

On the Fediverse, a decentralized corner of the internet where identities blur and reputations are built one post at a time, a user known only as “imhereforfun” endlessly consumes the storage space of his family member’s computers.

What followed was a chain of events that fractured a family, erased a trail digital footprints, and left behind more empty kleenex boxes than answers.

LMAO at anyone who made, or paid for, a PornHub account.

“Yes, I would like to log into PornHUB using my GMail account, please, for my convenience” - I just checked, they have SSO for Gmail and Twitter! AHAHAHAHAHAHA I’m dying

What a stupid fucking dildo. Sucking pp like that.