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!

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

[Insert South Park "We're Sorry" scene here]

Also, given the state of affairs and the lack of trust, I dont believe they are cutting them off. Assume the worst and do what you can to decouple from the platform I dont expect people to quit cold-turkey, but put in the effort, it takes a long time to degoogle yourself and given how ubiquitous discord was during the plague, I dont fault people for making sure lines of communication and contacts arnt broken.

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

Reminder: this changes nothing in their age verification requirements or telemetry gathering and training off your data/habits. They’re just going to use another invasive third party.

Yeah I'm sure they had absolutely no idea before. Because Peter Thiel such a trusted and reputable name, how could they possibly known that doing business with him would be negatively construed?

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/

We should pretty much assume that all age verification efforts either currently are feeding into surveillance efforts, or will be bought out by surveillance companies.

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.

That's cool, still leaving though.

I ain't submitting my ID to anyone over the internet.

This is a place of anonymity, not for proclaiming from the rooftops who I am on here.

Too late Discord. I will never come back.

... cuts ties for the time being

Well, I don't believe you.

Also, you should learn what trust is and how that works.

With guys like this you don't need to find secret surveillance shit, you just need to assume it.

Too late lol,already deleted my 10+ year old discord

Nah, don't believe it. Reason: money

Too late.

Too little, too late.

Doubt.

Whoops we accidentally picked something that will give the government your data. That wasn't our intention. Instead we're going to use an independent service so the government will have to buy it from us.

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

Is it just me or does this (the push for removing online anonymity) feel like part of a bigger move to push people into further insulated groups and prevent social cohesion?

nice try, but you will try to reintroduce it under another name. ALso the anti-christ thiel wont be happy.

Why create ties in the first place?

Not sure if I should upvote people fixing a obvious, terrible problem that they created themselves.

Trump, thiel, musk - all their dads were Nazis.

Trump's dad hated black people and sheltered Nazis and the KKK, Thiel's dad is from a Nazi town in South Africa, Musk's father and grandfather went to South Africa just for the racism.

They're all stuck in that, and catching feelings because of it.

Funny part is everyone was already saying this when Discord mentioned age verification and Discord was acting like their heads were in the sand. It wasn't until mass exodus and people canceling Nitro that they finally did something.

Discord is fucked. You love to see it.

Too late hahahaha

I deleted Discord and will not return.

Too fuckin bad Discord. Damage is done.

Already deleted my account. Not going back.

Too little too late fuck you discord.

I dunno. The current state of the world might be making me more conspiracy-minded, but this feels like it was always part of the plan.

Introduce surveillance tech that Peter Thiel can use to spy/sell/whatever, announce that you're using it, expecting people to get angry, and now in the 11th hour, after harvesting all the data they get to announce "we're removing the evil software! We're the good guys again!"

I recognize that the current state of affairs is having me see demons everywhere, but I just can't bring myself to give discord a pat on the back.