Discord server and new ID verification reqs

f00l posted a pic said 13 hours ago

I have barely used discord. Not for anything that matters.

A friend of mine is a member of several local (to him) writers groups. They are on discord and don’t wanna move.
Discord prompted him to upload a DL pix. He did. The groups are pretty useful to him (personal and biz)

So I logged onto Discord to see if I would be prompted.

I’m not currently willing to give them my DL.

I know every data co if size already has all that but I’m disinclined to roll over and cooperate. So if Discord prompts for it I’ll delete the app and maybe my account (if can do so with no DL)

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I have some reason to believe that Telegram is used by the Russian security services, tho very quietly (they don’t wanna scare people off of it)

They may even own it.
No effect on me, I don’t use it. I’m disinclined to

Signal seems ok but I’ve never heard it good for groups.

Slack is tolerable.

Then there are the gigantic tech products. Meta and Google and so forth.

Google no doubt knows all about me. I use FB ultra minimally (family thing)
I would not give Meta my L. They prob already know that but Zuck sux. If FB asks I’ll kill my account.

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So … what experiences have you all had with all this?

What are your thoughts? Would you upload your DL?

/giphy “burn before reading”

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Cerridwyn said 13 hours ago:

All the world cons use Discord for their virtual conventions. I honestly don’t know what they would do with that became a requirement. Could it potentially be a server choice, not a Discord choice but an option?

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  I don’t know the details. I just read somewhere that discord would require age verification, and then it did for my friend.
  
  My friend lives out of the US. Expat. Might make a diff.
  
  On a writers group some writers might be doing “adult material”. Maybe for that reason his groups got flagged. Or maybe the groups are setup that way.
  
  Seems to me as tho a lot of people who aren’t doing anything evil or toxic or illegal will get driven off discord by this.
  
  I’ll be interested to see how widely it is required and how users respond.
  
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  @f00l sez “Seems to me as tho a lot of people who aren’t doing anything evil or toxic or illegal…”
  
  That you know of…
  
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  I’m figuring based on my completely uninformed guess of % of online pop not doing hideous or illegal stuff.
  
  I figure there are at least a few.
  
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MrGoodGuy said 12 hours ago:

Here’s what the “All-Knowing” Google AI has to say:

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- @MrGoodGuy thank you
  i didn’t look it up but
  
  Cerridwyn said 12 hours ago
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  Ty
  
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therealjrn said 12 hours ago:

Until they pass voter ID for everyone I think this is just performative posturing. I haven’t been asked for a DL, but I don’t like it.

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- @therealjrn ditto. And with all the Privacy rights and the EU I wonder if this is even legal over there. But it’s not just an American platform so do you have different standards for somebody that’s in Spain or Germany or australia? And then what if they come to the United States and want to login
  
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werehatrack said 11 hours ago:

Three letters that are supposed to defeat boundaries: VPN.

Thing that will make access to a great many sites difficult: VPN, at least that’s my experience if the VPN is Surfshark.

Your experience with others might help people decide.

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  I use an vpn all the time w my computers. Part of the time w my phones.
  
  Unless it messes up banking or something. Then it’s temp off.
  
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narfcake said 9 hours ago:

Gamer’s Nexus put this out today:

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phendrick said 9 hours ago:

I for one generally avoid social media like the plague. I’m lucky enough to be able to do that professionally also. People on Meh probably have as good a handle on me as Meta does. (Mehta?) But I presume they’ll mine data from my obituary.

On a side note: Glitches admitted?

I hadn’t noticed it before and was just curious after reading the AI response in the comment above…

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+do+double+commas+in+a+google+ai+response+mean

AI Overview Double commas (,) in a Google AI response, or any
LLM-generated text, are generally not intended to be functional
punctuation, but rather a sign of a “glitch,” formatting error, or a
residue from training data. Here is what they usually mean based on
common AI behavior: Generation Error (Punctuation Spam): The AI may
have glitched while generating the sentence, causing it to repeat the
comma character. This is often seen as a form of “punctuation spam” in
the first sentence or throughout a response. Training Data Residue: AI
models are trained on massive datasets that include messy, informal
human writing. The AI may have learned to reproduce this pattern (a
“comma ellipsis” or “trailing off” style). Formatting
Misinterpretation: If the AI is trying to present a list or separate
items and misinterprets the structure, it might insert extra commas,
particularly if it was trying to handle a CSV-like structure. In
summary: If you see double commas, it is almost certainly a mistake in
the text generation, not a sophisticated punctuation technique. Note:
In some specific image generation AI contexts, multiple commas are
sometimes used to increase the “weight” of a concept or to separate
keywords, but this does not apply to text-based AI chat responses.
Google AI is now punctuation spamming in the first sentence. God I …

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