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tendermiasma.com
Any time a company has to "make a statement", it means they're sweating. Cook them
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 2d
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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dailybunnies.bsky.social
Two brown bunnies sit on hay, a white bunny lays beside them in a wooden enclosure.
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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theblindarcher.bsky.social
It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?
February 9, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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maxpoetic.online
presented for no particular reason
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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stagefatality.bsky.social
if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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zoomizoomi.bsky.social
I highly recommend you cancel your nitro subscription and even send an email or make a phone call.

My email looked like this. I advise a strongly worded, but still appropriate message.

Discord has walked back decisions like this before. We cannot just give up
An email that reads. Hello, Today I have canceled my nitro subscription despite having had one going for a 2 year streak and my discord account being 10 years old. I actually quite liked Nitro, but I can no longer support a company that seeks to gather my personal info in such an immoral, unsafe, and harmful way. Lets start with the immoral part. This decision is immoral due to the fact that adults have just as much of a right as teenagers do to exist on the internet. Forcing adults to upload sensitive information just to use your app is wrong. Adults have been using Discord for years and years and years. But now we are abruptly being punished for our loyalty. This level of surveillance is a massive overreach. My rights, my privacy are being violated. Now for the unsafe part. This is simple. I just don't trust you with my information. Perhaps you remember last October, I do. Why on earth should I trust you with some of my most sensitive info when there have already been significant data breaches? That is an absurd and foolish idea. Lastly we are at harmful. This is damaging in many ways. Surely you have already noticed how much people loathe doing this. Discord sits at a very unique position of being globally useful. Its an app that people find convenient and easy. Now that it is becoming less of both, people will be leaving the app. They will find another one. Discord is not the first messaging app and it will not be the last. This will irrevocably damage Discord as a company, but it may also drive people apart. Whenever migrations between websites or apps occur, people fall through the cracks. Friends you used to speak too, are now absent. They vanish sometimes. The communities you have helped carefully craft will fall apart and you will only have yourself to blame. You once existed to help bring people together, but this action will only drive people apart. Does that make you happy? Either way, those are my thoughts. I will begin looking for an alter…
February 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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emrys.gay
Just got this email back. Don't use email, use their form: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...

If you haven't used their support portal, you may need to request activation and use the email you have associated with your disc account.

Hit the same points as you would in an email, tips below ⬇️
February 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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nicopossum.bsky.social
hit 'em where it hurts!! 🥰✨
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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kaiserneko.bsky.social
I cannot be more serious about this people.

You need to find a better alternative, if they don't walk this back.

You do not – I CANNOT EMPHASIZE THIS FUCKING ENOUGH, DO NOT – want to give these people your identification.
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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kaiserneko.bsky.social
Oh. Then we'll all delete Discord.
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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erininthemorning.com
In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.

Then covered it up again when caught.

Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up
A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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huberd.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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shenpai.gay
Goomfies
February 8, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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superbutterbuns.bsky.social
Their generosity was legitimately life changing. They gave me an opportunity to prove myself, and I will forever be grateful for their unconditional love. Laura, if you ever see this, please let the fam know I miss them and cherish the time in that house so much.
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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superbutterbuns.bsky.social
Ya know the success of my youtube career is 100% in thanks to puerto ricans.

In 2016, after I finished college, I moved in with my close friend's family, who gave me a room, rent-free, for 8 months. Within those months, I grew the channel enough that I made it a full-time job that could house me.
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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milkythesquid.bsky.social
Thank you all genuinely for watching my bullshit, I currently and have for a while had Worms In My Brain but I am working on Not Having Worms In My Brain so that I may Be Funny again

Thank you for supporting me while I find the perfect brand of chemicals to deworm and delouse myself like a fish
February 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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dailybunnies.bsky.social
A white and gray bunny nestles between two legs, looking at the camera.
February 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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jemnothorax.bsky.social
it's been a whiiiile so i updated my meet the artist !! 🐬✨

#art #meettheartist #oc #fishsona
A "Meet The Artist" profile showing my fishsona (Jem - he/it), which is an atlantic mackerel with features based on myself including: pink hair, four ear piercings and a pierced septum, an oversized black t-shirt with a dolphin on it, black cargo shorts, and fish print socks. Next to it there are four flags which are the scottish flag and trans, pansexual, and demisexual pride flags, along with two boxes showing interests and favourite video games. The interests are moray eels (+ all aquatic life), halloween, playing piano & bass, body mods, jurassic park, spicy food, nu metal, and clowns. The video games are dragon quest, soulsborne, animal crossing, kingdom hearts, ecco the dolphin, sam & max, samorost, and rhythm games. Below the boxes are a selection of some of my favourite things i own - a slime plush, 2ds xl, reptar bag, book of the dead from the evil dead 1, a sewing machine, shark teeth, and a hangyodon keychain. The background of the profile is dusty pink with a fish bone pattern.
August 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
Unexpected yuri in my Muppet Show
Sabrina Carpenter and Miss Piggy hugging
February 7, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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poors.bsky.social
Rosalina
February 8, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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puzzled-artist.bsky.social
First date nerves
July 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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protonjon.bsky.social
So, where do I plug in the Rumble Pak?
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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stephenge.org
it took 22 years but we finally have a new Pokémon Pinball

if you thought 69.99 was bad, you’re gonna hate 6999.99
February 6, 2026 at 7:58 PM