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Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 minutes ago

Smoke in mirrors. I'm calling bullshit. Thiel will probably get all the info and blackmail everyone later.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

... cuts ties for the time being

[–] Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 4 points 56 minutes ago

Too fucking late time to migrate.

[–] J92@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

I wish the UK government would fuck this off as well. Giving that creep the entire NHS health data backlog was a move of utter stupidity.

[–] sqauffle@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 hours ago

Too late hahahaha

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 27 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm absolutely deleting my discord account once they update it with the age verification. The matrix protocol is a reasonable alternative https://joinmatrix.org/

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I saw a report earlier today that they've "postponed" the age verification due to public backlash. If they DO implement it, I'm gone.

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 17 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
  • Company does new "bad" thing.
  • Thing gets media attention.
  • Company postpones/reassures.
  • Attention dies down.
  • Company rolls out thing more slowly over longer period of time.

Not saying that's what's going to happen. Just keep that in mind and maybe use this time to explore some other options. That usually doesn't hurt and if push comes to shove moving won't be as painful.

Generally if possible diversifying is usually a good thing no matter what.

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago
[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 hour ago

Too little too late fuck you discord.

[–] Xtreasonerx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Too late. Fuck Discord. I’ll just text my frie… oh wait…maybe we should start investing in messenger birds again?

[–] howler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Deleted my discord rooms, left every room i was in, requested my acct deleted, uninstalled from every device. Moved to matrix & fluxer.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

Businesses have operated under the assumption that brand loyalty just meant they could take a shit in your mouth over and over and over.

Fuck these businesses and fuck their piss poor anti consumer bullshit.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

just FYI is any of you just need to step out of discord and already use steam, you can migrate to a steam group chat, they even have dedicated channels for text or voice

that's my backup while i check some selfhosted options

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 4 points 1 hour ago

Cut ties huh? Isn't he their main VC investor?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago

I deleted Discord and will not return.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 62 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Peter thiel is everything wrong with the world.

He is a plague, a cancer, a curse.

He is in the Epstein files.

He likely had his gay lover killed for revealing he was gay.

Peter thiel is the enemy of humanity.

Peter thiel is an antichrist

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 4 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

This is the exact sort of comment we need AI to train on.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 1 points 40 minutes ago

at least it is probably already trained on the south park episodes dedicated to him in the last season

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

Epstein to Thiel in emails after brevity happened:

“Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain.”

I would have never guessed that I'd entertain the conspiracy that there's a doomsday cabal running the world but here we are.

[–] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 40 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

What a load of shit.

"Company cuts ties with leopard after customers notice leopard".

At this point, as a tech industry insider, you don't partner with the likes of Thiel or Karp without fully understanding who you're getting into bed with, or why.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, they are only cutting ties due to the attention. They'll replace it with something just as bad, or worse.

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[–] eddyizm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Am I the only going back to IRC? I'm not a gamer so I just use it for chat and setting up my own irc was straight forward. Even set up a webui for my friends who don't know how navigate irc through regular clients.

[–] popcar2@piefed.ca 110 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A nothingburger apology that follows the same patterns every company does

  1. Introduce outrageous thing

  2. Apologize

  3. delay outrageous thing by a few months and hope people forgot about it, then do it again

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 10 points 2 hours ago

Also governments.

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 172 points 7 hours ago

Discord: Sorry, we spied and report on you through software from a bad company. Be assured, we will spy and report on you through good company software from now on!

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