Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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      Very much wrong. I had to write my username (with the numbers too) next to me. Fun fact: I could not access my Discord, so could not see my exact username, so a friend saved me over Reddit, by sending me my username. I also needed my ID next to me, I had to take a picture. I of course, got the news that my personal information was leaked from support, some time later.

      How nice.

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        Jesus, I wish you hadn’t done that, it just encourages them. Isn’t it convenient they never promise not to use this personal information for commercial purposes. Not that a promise means dick with these parasites running these places.

        With like twitter, they allowed influence agents to run amok and then when they get flak for it the solution is to demand commercially valuable information from users to prove whom they are.

        So they made you present your username, your ID, and your own face?

        Next time, doctor an ID with the details of like Pharoh Ramsey or something, I saw someone doing that for an ID thing.