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Fansubber (was), Game Master, PhD
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Traductions (plus vraiment), Meneur de Jeu, Docteur
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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 · 15h
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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papillonheart.bsky.social
Mood
February 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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cckirby.bsky.social
"the vast majority of you won't have to worry about this" I don't even fucking care if it turns out it's only three people that have to worry about this, it shouldn't be implemented, period. Keep cancelling your Nitro, they're clearly noticing
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 15h
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 2:13 AM
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personakiwami.bsky.social
If you're gonna read any quote from an article on the game, let it be this one, because I think it sums up a lot of the feelings of fans pretty succintly
“In a word, it’s grief,” Yakuza/Like A Dragon Wiki “Chairman” Masu told me. “If you’re a longtime fan or even if you can see yourself becoming one, if the series has resonated with you, it’s hard to come to terms with the idea that maybe its driving principle of chivalry is just a power fantasy to be packaged and sold and not a sincerely-held belief. And if you’re a survivor like I am, it’s even harder to lose faith in creators you hoped were in your corner when most of the world isn’t. A lot of us are being forced to close a chapter in our lives [that] we never wanted to close.”
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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dragonfish.bsky.social
It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · 20h
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 10:13 PM
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nessathewriter.bsky.social
me in hell
screenshot from Doom of a hellish alien scene with the subtitle "WHERE IS THE GUY WHO INVENTED SELLING PERSONAL DATA"
February 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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mackeza.bsky.social
Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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joshmanvgh.bsky.social
Doing my part.
A disgruntled user, canceling their Discord Nitro subscription after a recent policy change announcement. The text reads: "I'm not giving you my license so you can lose it in another security breach, or sell it because you have no idea how to make money anymore after your massive COVID bump. You are a chat service, and all my friends are pushing 40. We moved here FROM something else, we will move TO something else."
February 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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moomanibe.bsky.social
shoutout to @amazingthew.bsky.social for the actual answer to discord adult verification
(discord screenshot) "anyone using discord from a desktop pc is verified over 30"
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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hatok.bsky.social
it's kinda crazy that "make products that people will buy so you can make money" has become borderline lost knowledge because of how insane executives have gotten
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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bravernyaoi.bsky.social
looking forward having drafts stored for 3+ years and thinking what I was on when I typed them
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · 20h
v1.116 is rolling out now!

For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.
A demonstration of where you can find the drafts feature in the top right corner of the post composer on Bluesky.
February 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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globtopus.fr
Donc.
En 2026.
L'une des adaptations les plus directes des monstres Lovecraftiens c'est... le prochain film "Minions" ?!

Dagon, Cthulhu, Shoggoth,... ils sont tous là.
February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
shadesofnier.bsky.social
This happened to my friend Takumi

youtu.be/qcwqUf_B5mM?...
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YouTube video by TomSka
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February 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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stel.energy
it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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oku.mow.haus
The idea that everybody on the planet must forever be beholden to the default of babysitter of other people’s children except for their actual fucking parents, and as a result any attempt to opt of non-consensual babysitting must include getting my identity stolen, is an idea that must fucking die.
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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gbdialga.bsky.social
Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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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
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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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natclayton.bsky.social
"Teen-by-Default" is such a hilariously grim way to talk about your userbase like, usually companies aren't this up-front about how they think we're all dumb children.
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d
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 3:57 PM
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kzxcellent.live
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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unicouniuni3.bsky.social
Maybe… I’ve become too strong
A close-up of a tuxedo cat lying down, gazing intensely ahead A close-up of a tuxedo cat lying down
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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lux-spei.bsky.social
#KingdomHearts #Aqua
February 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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theswweet.myatproto.social
Matching icons for the gay oomfs just dropped
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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nightmargin.bsky.social
this too is outer wilds
depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1d
"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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agramuglia.bsky.social
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Hikaru Utada reveals in recent interview they identify as “tri-bi”: “Bisexual, bilingual and non-binary.”
February 8, 2026 at 11:52 PM