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Zareph
@zareph.bsky.social
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Novice 2D / 3D Artist 🎨 | Content creator 📹 | VR Photographer | Twitch Affiliate | Chaotic noodle dragoness 🐉| Transfemale 🏳️‍⚧️ | 31 | 18+ only

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Zareph @zareph.bsky.social · Oct 19
Introduction time! Welcome newcomers, my name is Zareph, and I do various things, such as art, VR photography, and I also stream! I am also slowly but learning how to do 3D avatar work and will post if commissions are open, so stay tuned!

Where you can find me: linktr.ee/zareph_art
zareph.bsky.social
Being sent off to destroy Arch mage's belongings and I dunno why, but we're vibing! Come hang out and vibe as we play Yapyap!

twitch.tv/Zareph_Art
February 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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brujofaolan.bsky.social
Discord lied.

they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.

“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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sielderg.bsky.social
Am Older today. Also Dergathon starts later today at 4 PM :)
February 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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sielderg.bsky.social
Finally Announcing my Dergathon! my birfmas is on the 11th! Doing lots of crowd control, giving away games, lots of fun stuff!

...*been working on this all last month-*

TY so much to @yorialu.bsky.social For the art and helping me get it Cleaned up and neat looking <3
February 5, 2026 at 7:41 AM
zareph.bsky.social
Ah yes
February 10, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social
This post is going viral, but this isn't walking back. It's reiterating the initial press release. There's no new information in this post, aside from them saying they're using a different ID partner (which doesn't solve that problem) and the Reddit joke. Everything else is the same. Keep pushing.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 4d
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)
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!
February 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
zareph.bsky.social
PRETTY
February 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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legendofnerd.bsky.social
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)
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!
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
zareph.bsky.social
Almost forgot to post this week's schedule!

Thursday we'll be playing some Yapyap, and depending on how long we go for, may veer off to Voices of the Void! Whereas Saturday we'll be doing more Voices of the Void and work on upgrading our Kerfur bot.

Hope you all have a lovely week!
February 10, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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alsocolors.bsky.social
"I never expected you to be that very same Colors"
#Torchic #Shinx #pmd #MysteryDungeon #ExplorersOfSky #Pokemon #PokemonArt #Grovyle
February 9, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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ryusuddenpaws.bsky.social
Remember yall, time to cancel your Nitros. best way to send a company a message is to stop giving them money! also because your credit info could get stolen when discord gets hacked again.
February 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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allisteranim.bsky.social
Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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itsmapledoe.bsky.social
I cancelled my Discord Nitro and so should you
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
zareph.bsky.social
been about taking your privacy and anonymity from you, and worse.

We need to vocalize against this and fight back.
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
zareph.bsky.social
The shit with Discord wanting you to provide them with your ID / face "for the kids" is bullshit, and *if* they enforce it, that should piss anyone off. Discord is unable to be trusted with anything as they've gone through data breaches numerous times, and nothing has ever been for the kids, it's
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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sineprin.bsky.social
Previously
An article headline that reads "Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs". The article is dated Oct 3, 2025.
February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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flashfennec.bsky.social
Reminder that they're still trying to repeal section 230 (thereby making platform holders like bsky legally responsible for content posted by their users etc etc)

There is still a need for you to blow up your rep's phones on this if you enjoy being able to do things like "post" or "have an porn"
Complete Nonsense
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February 8, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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gaiusghostpaws.bsky.social
Well everyone time to Bully Discord for the Face ID bullshit. Not like they already had databreach and shit. TIME TO DOX YOUR USERS HARDER RIGHT? What about connection issues they havrnt fixed? Bully them to backdown
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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madocactus.itch.io
time to be loud about this terrible decision.

discord.com/company-info...
February 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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vexglyph.bsky.social
Otherworldly machine
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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plive.bsky.social
kill @redishdragie.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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sylfeanne.bsky.social
(Old) heart emote💖 #fennekin
February 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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yorialu.bsky.social
Ever wanted feedback on your character refs? We'll be talking refs NEXT SUNDAY 2/15 at 12pm CST!👀

✨POST UP TO 2 REFS (or your best alt) BELOW✨

Feedback will be constructive & per ref basis, I can also give feedback on the OC design if desired!

Follow my Twitch ahead of time! www.twitch.tv/yorialu
February 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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lilnoodledragon.bsky.social
Alright fun little ✨raffle✨ cause we all need joy and I want to surpass the follower count I had on Twitter lmao

🌟 Follow and RT and drop a sona pic/ref! 🌟

Winner gets a little lock screen YCH of their sona like Palo shown here!

Any gender, species, and body type welcome!
February 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM