Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default “teen-appropriate” experience unless it has proof that users are adults.
The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.
The more reason to abandon them, IMO, when they try to hold those communities hostage. Discord needs us, not the other way around. Without them, we find other ways to talk to our people. Without us, they don’t have a business.