Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
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Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.
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Beginning with a phased global rollout to new and existing users in early March, users may be required to engage in an age-verification process to change certain settings or access sensitive content. This includes age-restricted channels, servers, or commands and select message requests.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    15 hours ago

    Thing is, people move platforms extremely easily.

    LOL WTF are you talking about? The only reason these platforms are able to abuse the absolute shit out of their users is because they refuse to leave. If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last 3-4 years it’s that users absolutely do not leave platforms no matter what (at least not in any significant numbers). Not Reddit, not Xitter, not Facebook or IG or Threads, not Windows, and not Discord.

    • SalamenceFury@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      14 hours ago

      People left MSN Messenger and Skype before, my dude. There’s just so much the average user can take.

          • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            Except it doesn’t. Twitter and Reddit etc. has done everything they can to drive users off their platforms and still they don’t leave.

            • SalamenceFury@piefed.socialEnglish
              21·
              13 hours ago

              Actually, they did. 90% of Twitter’s activity now is bots. The only people left are either artists who are completely delusional about their numbers (they have like 13k followers but barely get 200 likes), or mega nazis. Everyone else is no longer there and has moved to places like Bluesky or Mastodon. In fact, I myself never made it past 150 followers on my old twitter account and I had that one for 12 years. My current one has 82 followers and never climbed past that. Bluesky tho? I already have 170+ followers in less than two years of owning the account, and many other artists reached their Twitter follower count in a tiny fraction of the time.

              A good portion of reddit threads are also riddled with bots, so it LOOKS like nobody left.

              • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
                11·
                12 hours ago

                90% of Twitter’s activity now is bots

                LOL is Joe Biden a bot? Clinton? Obama? Corey Doctorow? Molly White? Every politician and public figure in existence? Where’s your evidence for this?

                • SalamenceFury@piefed.socialEnglish
                  11·
                  12 hours ago

                  You have multiple search engines at your disposal, my man. Just search for it. Also, almost every single post of those politicians has thousands of bot replies and the pattern is always there every time someone with a high follower count posts.