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Kris Wolfheart

@kriswolfhe.art

People used to get so shitty about Tales of games over this and it baffled me even as a teenager. Like are you really getting thrown off by the term 'fonon'

Häschen Schwartz 🐰👑 VTUBER @schwartzsama.bsky.social · 1d

Redditors and YouTubers made fun of pure fantasy words like Fal'Cie so much that now everything in games is named shit like The Beforers and The Big Evil

February 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM

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WeRateDogs

@weratedogs.com

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM

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Quillipede

@quillipede.bsky.social

She's right. The gradual closing of the internet with "save the children" as a wedge issue is progressing and will only serve authoritarians.

We need more political organization around these issues - not just targeting Discord, but targeting the governments that encourage and enable this behaviour.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

February 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM

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mimi 🗡️

@heirakka.bsky.social

you can say "don't steal other people's ocs" and someone will get upset and cry about how copyright laws are bullshit.

i'm not taking about copyright, i'm talking about how it's so easy to be a nice person and respect your artist peers by not treating them as stepping stones... 🤦🏼‍♂️

February 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM

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Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️

@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.

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 9:57 AM

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Atelier Alyssa ⭐💫

@alyossan.art

Sorry to vent on main but I'm just so sick of being a grown-ass adult online who can't openly enjoy talking about or drawing sex stuff even in completely adult spaces where all minors are completely banned just because everyone has gotta be such fascist controlling fucking babies about it

February 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM