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What's the point of switching to Discord alternatives, if they're going to be subject to the same age verification laws? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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I know Discord is enshittifying and I'm all for switching to open source instead.

But everyone's reason for leaving seems to be:

"Discord wants my ID for age verification and I don't like that."

And the new apps will be subject to the exact same laws.

Are users just not realizing that (and therefore in for a rude awakening), or am I missing something?

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[–] 98 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

A great deal of the internet is still the wild west that it once was, and should always have been. You think something like IRC is ever gonna be subject to this crap? I suspect it's only ever going to be imposed on centralized, corporate, painfully mainstream platforms.

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