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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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[–] 19 points 8 months ago

Yeah.. when the point is hit where the ID stuff needs to be implemented, you're too big a site to avoid going into the shitter anyhow.

Honestly, if this decentralization push as a result of the corporatization of social media means we end up with websirtes smaller and run by individuals like the web used to be 20+ years ago.. you know, I'm totally fine with that.

I've been on lemmy since early October when the reddit ban-hammer smacked me down.. and I do not miss the "sturm un drang" of that site one bit.

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