Discord has quietly begun testing Incode as a new age verification provider, replacing its previous vendor for some users. The company says face scans are processed on-device where possible, IDs and selfies are deleted after age confirmation, and Discord only receives an age result, not your identity. But the move still raises important privacy questions around biometric verification, third-party trust, and the growing trend of mandatory age checks online, especially after the massive Persona breach linked to Discord user data back in 2025

  • aurelar@lemmy.ml
    25·
    1 month ago

    They said that the pictures were deleted last time, and we found out later that they weren’t. Why would we trust them a second time when they violated our trust the first time?

  • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
    241·
    1 month ago

    I wish more FOSS communities would use Matrix, Discord sucks so I barely use it anymore

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Fluxer just finally finished their big refactor that brought their code to GitHub for public contribution and they released their revamped selfhosting experience

    • Manalith@midwest.social
      2·
      1 month ago

      Been working on deciding where to move to, not sure if I can get my people to come with but as it stands

      Fluxer - E2EE is iffy at the moment from what I’ve seen, federation not yet a thing

      Matrix - I don’t know of a client that allows audio screenshares which is important when sites keep removing the watchparty features

      MOVIM is entirely text based as far as I can tell

      • spiderhamster@midwest.social
        1·
        1 month ago

        Matrix - I don’t know of a client that allows audio screenshares which is important when sites keep removing the watchparty features

        If you use Element web with a chrome-based browser you can share a tab playing a video from the same browser. I use Helium to connect to matrix and my Jellyfin server to stream movies regularly. Within the last few months they’ve added the ability to adjust stream volume as well.

  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 month ago

    I know there are groups local to me who organise almost entirely on discord, I cannot understand why they choose to do this, even before everything discord has proven to be a very insecure platform

  • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    How can Discord users be 100% sure that Discord will delete their very private data after being verified? Where is the source code for that so we can verify it?

    Oh. Wait. Discord is closed sourced…