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Myrlin Harte (They/He)
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Fantasy nerd, LARPer, DM, and lover of fantasy fiction, animation, and art.
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tepigfan101.bsky.social
Fuck you discord 🖕
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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buttplug.engineer
easy enough
Discord cancellation email
February 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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wario64.bsky.social
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 2:29 PM
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rhena.bsky.social
no one:

discord for some reason:
pov shot of a man pointing a handgun at his own crotch
February 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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cappuccinoguil.bsky.social
Discord isn't walking back anything yet, but this shows they are feeling the pressure and you should keep bullying and contacting them until they relent.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 9d
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 3:15 AM
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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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gamingonlinux.com
Discord is about to require age verification for everyone
#Discord
Discord is about to require age verification for everyone
Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform.
www.gamingonlinux.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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yosh.fyi
How to cancel #discord #nitro. LMGTFY
February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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freydraws.bsky.social
time to bully the FUCK outta discord.
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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pankraru.bsky.social
Did you Know discord has a phone number, Email and address?
discord.com/company-info...

Discord Inc.
444 De Haro Street
Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94107

Phone: 888-594-0085
Email: [email protected]

Customer Support: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...

#Discord
Company Information - Impressum | Discord
Read Discord's Impressum, statement of ownership, as well as company information.
discord.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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nikotoofficial.bsky.social
Discord out here inventing noncon age regression
isawken.bsky.social relax guys, it’s still ken @isawken.bsky.social · 9d
yeah i’m ATAD (assigned teen at discord)
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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theverge.com
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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wario64.bsky.social
Posted in October - "Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users" arstechnica.com/security/202...
Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users
As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.
arstechnica.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 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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rotonomics.bsky.social
Damn that’s crazy. On a completely unrelated note

www.wikihow.com/Discord-Alte...
24 Discord Alternatives for Community Chat
Popular platforms for chatting, video calling, and community-buildingAre you looking for an alternative to Discord? Maybe you'd like more privacy or to be able to host your own servers, or maybe you w...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
princeofhartes.bsky.social
@discord.com Got on here solely to say I cancelled Nitro because of your decision to make age verification global. You don’t need to see my ID or face, you’re a chat platform, not the government. Moving to Stoat until you get your act together. #discord #stoat #enshittification
February 10, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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aftermath.site
Discord leadership only people on planet who think adding age verification to Discord a good idea:

aftermath.site/discord-age-ve...
February 9, 2026 at 9:02 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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lordskyfire.bsky.social
Age verification has never been about keeping kids safe online. If it were, they would use literally any other system that is proven to be more effective and safer. This article outlines a little bit what that would look like.

Also cancel your nitro.
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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david-jenkins.bsky.social
1775. An editor comes into work on Christmas eve to find a manuscript on his desk. The title: A HISTORY OF PYRATES by Charles Johnson. (We have no budget so we’ll say the editor is played by Michael Stuhlbarg).
December 24, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Jest throwing it out there.
@turkeyteddybear: “Work husband” “work wife” what about my work jester? my funny little friend coming to my office to tell me a silly story and make me smile? a jolly little creature who will enrich me on our lunch break?
March 27, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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cloudmaker.bsky.social
Another from Iceland ... this time in the WestFjords near Dynjandi Waterfall ... and while it's understandable to long for blue skies, the advantage of overcast weather was that the colours of the autumn heath really popped against the green moss, and grey, lichen covered boulders.
Moss and lichen covered boulders in the Westfjords of Iceland surrounded by autumn coloured heath
February 25, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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seananmcguire.bsky.social
"Women have discovered fantasy." Nope. Diana Wynne Jones and Diane Duane and Robin McKinley and Mercedes Lackey and Jane Lindskold were THERE, you just...didn't choose to see them.
February 21, 2024 at 5:55 PM