Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

HayabusaCosplay 🍉

@hayabusazeroz.bsky.social

150 followers 260 following 570 posts

Hello I am big nerd He/Him🙆‍♂️. 🔞

Southern California cosplayer. Sometimes I edit videos: YouTube.com/hayabusazero

LGBTQIA+ rights 🏳️‍🌈 anti-billionaire

I oppose ALL forms of A.I. generated "art"

Posts Replies Media Videos

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Brian M

@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

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Wario64

@wario64.bsky.social

Monster Hunter Wilds - a large scale expansion (similar to Iceborne/Sunbreak) is in development. More info to be shared this summer

February 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM

HayabusaCosplay 🍉

@hayabusazeroz.bsky.social

Yay new art club mail from @borcheim.newgrounds.com !!

February 9, 2026 at 11:46 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Alex Ahad o_8

@oh8.bsky.social

Personally (professionally?) my fave Sheva outfit

👀👁‍🗨

February 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

amber

@bloodberrytart.bsky.social

my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system

February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Smokage of the Burning Leaf

@pattheflip.bsky.social

Ten years on 2XKO, 12 at Riot and I got laid off with 30min notice lol

Gonna take some time.

February 9, 2026 at 7:45 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Game Developer

@gamedeveloper.bsky.social

Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team

'Overall momentum hasn’t reached the level needed to support a team of this size long term.'

www.gamedeveloper.com

February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Niccy 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔜 NFC

@nicopossum.bsky.social

hit 'em where it hurts!! 🥰✨

February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Austin Lee Matthews 🐭

@amtrax.bsky.social

Cancelled my Discord Nitro, you should too.

February 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Pat Stares At

@patstaresat.bsky.social

Oh God fucking damnit. Alright what are the alternatives

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 20h

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

discord.com/press-releas...

February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

MoonWatcher

@moonwatcher582.bsky.social

What the FUCK is this

What are they DOING man

February 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Kris Wolfheart

@kriswolfhe.art

how about if I attached a debit card to my account to give you money you fucks

Memor-X @memor-x.bsky.social · 18h

quick everyone, start playing hentai and super violent games for discord to notice you are an adult lol

However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.

"If we have a high confidence that they are an adult, they will not have to go through the other age verification flows," Badalich says.

February 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Sineprin

@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

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

i’m just ken

@shepardcdr.bsky.social

shadow the hedgehog with a speech bubble

February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM

Reposted by HayabusaCosplay 🍉

Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...