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Discord announced a revamped global age verification system
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I knew about Discord since the very beginning. But it felt always fishy. Why would they provide a service for frees? Teamspeak servers cost money on a monthly basis?
Over the time more and more small communities i liked to interact with were only accessible via Discord. Which was alright because you didnt even need an account to do it. Jump in, do the thing and fuck off.
At some point it was just convenient to make an account with an email adress i dont even remember anymore. Just to keep up with all the niche interest groups. Then a lot of them started to require my phone number. lmao. I just left those "servers".
But ngl over the years i found some communities which will hurt to abandon. The network effect is real. But its maybe time to fuck off forever.
I mean they shipped an increbible product. When out alternatives were Zoom, with no commhnity functionality, teamspeak with no streaming or video, or something like slack maybe for coordi ation, they stuck it all together and made it work. It is without exaggeration the perfect vehicle for everything ICQ and other bespoke instant messaging widgets started almost 40 years ago.
So yeah but of course if you have something everyone wants the tendency is to monitize it until it's a husk of its original intention. So it goes. I'm waiting for the next alternative that people want to actually shift to but I'm not giving them my money. In the meantime my actual RL commhnities are all here and they're not Meta-tier evil yet so I fon't have a problem with staying for now.
The base tier is free. If you want the flashy features, you have to subscribe. Most people want those features.
More and more features have moved behind that paywall. Streaming 1080, for instance, used to be free.
What has been most concerning to me about Discord was the trial of a call timer on random servers. By now this may of expanded to all servers, not sure. My thinking is how long until they are charging us for minutes like the phone companies did? Or more likely, giving unlimited minutes only to nitro subscribers.
I'm done with it, I set up my own teamspeak server like the good ol' days.