Discord age verification

[firecat]

I guess Discord is going to start requiring users to prove they are over a certain age if they want to access certain content.

I mainly use Discord to keep connected to fanfic fandom, most of which has certain content. And I definitely am not going to upload my ID.

Does this affect you? If so, what are you going to do when it goes into effect?

Comments

[snippy]

Not affected, because I tried and then gave up on Discord a long time ago. It's just not for me, and then there were the earlier data leaks.

Could comments on AO3 serve a similar purpose? Having discussions in comments used to happen with Disqus. Disqus even had original newsgroup-style communities separate from a commenting function on an existing blog. They eliminated that functionality (and deleted all content) more than 5 years ago, maybe 10.

[firecat]

I don’t see how comments on AO3 could replace the kind of fandom that’s happening on Discord. But I guess we’ll find out. I am not actually super engaged with Discord because I don’t like the interface. But there are a few channels I look at frequently.