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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458015

If I am required to do this, I am purging my Discord account immediately. I am not giving them face scans.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I can't find any remotely authoritative sources saying this. Who is this YouTuber?

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they ask for my face I'm done with Discord my friends and I will find a new place to chill

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I do not have a camera....so get fucked I guess. Ok discord..bye, you are easily replaced as a voice chat for videogames with friends.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They do technically still offer a "manual review", which is what they do now, where you have to take a photo using any kind of camera with your photo ID and email it... which isn't really better, and can be very, very slow in actually regaining access to an account.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Since when do they ask for age? I remember you didn't even need a verified email

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I’m sure you won’t need this in your average server.

Are you joining dating servers full of teenagers and questionable activity?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do you guys think that maybe we could fool the AI with AI?

I’d like to try to verify an account using a This Person Does Not Exist generated image, but I don’t use Discord at all

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I've tried with Facebook, but it never let's me create an account

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can, a shitty deepfake will trick most verification systems, I've tested it in banks before

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Typically they test videos, not images. So your AI would have to at least animate it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This is what it takes for you to finally leave discord? I would guess most people that have managed to stick around discord this long won't even mind this.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago

This is significantly worse than anything they've done

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't use the platform, why is Discord so terrible?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, the service itself is decent, up to great depending on your criteria. Pretty much never down, works well enough, etc.

It's the privacy and bullshit behind the service that's hated. Well, usually, some people hate the layout, and others hate the fact that it's the default for so many people that it's difficult to avoid.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It's the privacy

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I stopped using Discord way back when it always spun up my fans and made my phone hot just leaving it open.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Back to TeamSpeak and Vent then

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

If something like this happens, I'm setting up a Matrix room as something on the side for if people who work on the same project I do want out of this garbage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does anybody have any suggestions for alternatives for chats?

I use it a lot for classes (students use them) and video games.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I needed my face, ID, and username to get unbanned (disco was convinced I'm underage)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Maybe it's because you spell it "disco"

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

huh...sounds like an invasion of privacy.

good thing I never used discord because of the toxicity and pedophiles.

nothing gained, nothing lost.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Discord has always been an invasion of privacy. They require a phone number for ages

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