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aster ✰ @aufdeinerhaut.bsky.social · Nov 25

18+ ACCOUNT!! IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 AND SEEING THIS, YOU LIED ABOUT YOUR AGE ON THIS SITE.

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ALT: a purple and black warning sign with an exclamation point in the middle .

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toumato🔞

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rkgk

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February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

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Any time a company has to "make a statement", it means they're sweating. Cook them

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 6:16 AM

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Terracotta desire, adoration glaze. (2023)

February 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM

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Gibson Girl Character sheet (2022)🖤✒️

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February 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM

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It bums me out that there isn't more Paleolithic rock art of cave hyenas, especially considering they were all over the place. So I made some myself.

February 7, 2026 at 2:18 AM

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Winton Kidd 🔞

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Shadowheart Moon (2024) 💜🌙

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February 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM

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Her Favourite Snack(s) 🍄

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February 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM

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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM

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Socialism for All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle

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"tighten the rules on warrants"????

They're literally not using warrants
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/22/p...

January 28, 2026 at 8:42 PM

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risky business

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January 26, 2026 at 4:45 AM

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Socialism for All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle

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From General Strike to Uprising, Part 1

Marxist-Leninist audiobook + discussion of how a general strike in 1905 Russia became an armed uprising against the tsarist government due to workers' desire for more, catching even the Russian Marxists of the time unprepared

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vzK...