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Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults.

Hey folks –

I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news.

I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.)

Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence.

Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details.

And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 31/07/2025

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

They are getting more detailed these days, and cheap to get started. I got POC vtuber friends who have pngs that I can send recs for Also discord dm me, lolol

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I'd like to live in a world where I can breathe clean air and drink fresh water. But no, I am forced to call old men and tell them I don't want everything I see on the internet become AI Fucking call your reps. This is utterly ridiculous, we have more important issues to worry than making soyjacks

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...

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Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill

Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

You quite literally star in a game that debates the moral conundrum of augmenting people and what such a technology does to a world. Actually let's ignore that for a moment: do you really want to lose your job to the corpos because you want to see pragmatic takes instead of realizing the negatives?

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Hara Rae Sol ✦ V-Tuber ✦ @hararaesol.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Fellow vtubers! I need your help! My pc got wiped and I lost all of my pose ideas! Gimme your favorite art pieces of yourself so I can swipe poses and neat artists! I'll start with some of mine! ☀️🪶 (Artists in order: rkdvanguard, Kelfii, panzsan, yxxrem)

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Did you get that good sleep where your arm got the good grill marks?

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Aki-T @aki-t144.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This was amazing too

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

eeeeeegh do you have room to be sassy or just have to be kind at work? Everyone I know always asks about my love life and I hate having to answer it -_-

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raz |⚧️| רָז רְעוּאֵל @shetef.myatproto.social · 29/04/2025

now you listen here, kid. you're gonna wake up tomorrow morning and touch some goddamn grass. maddon', get off the fuckin' podcasts and be a man for chrissakes

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

You doing alright there bud? (Fully knowing that you are in fact dying so hard)

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

were they loose or still in the package? Either way, probs refer to the staff because OOF

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

that is neat, I would love to see the work sometime if you are comfortable! A tattoo is next on my list of shit to get, I really want to get cherry blossoms along my collarbone as it is my favorite flower :3

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

YOOOOOOO whcha gonna get? You strike me as the type to get some sick ass art

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Hara Rae Sol ✦ V-Tuber ✦ @hararaesol.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

New temple new meeeeee! (Art: hoonyusi)

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John Chen @johnchen.com.au · 29/03/2025

hear hear

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Elias J Dodger 🤓🤎 1920s Writer/Vtuber @eliasjdodger.neocities.org · 25/04/2025

Anyone ever think about how Frog is just one of the best and most fitting animal names out there? Like you have this green slimy wet thing with big eyes that jumps a lot and you're like, yeah, that's a frog. Same for Toad too. Big boy version and it's like Toad. Yes. Toad.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 24/04/2025

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

its on github. i uploaded it up on bitbucket. its running in a docker container on gleeple. im selfhosting it on feep. its on a virtual environment in pooble. bro its literally on weewee

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Angel @angelzhearts.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

CAN'T A GUY ENJOY HIS MEMES AT PEACE

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Sylvie- EN_Vtuber and Artist! @rkdvanguard.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

commission from @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social ! Gear is what we would call a 'speed demon' while @hararaesol.bsky.social we had to use a much rarer denotation of 'Speed God' #ENVtuber #commissionsopen

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Gear Graphic 🏁🪽 STEEL FEATHERED RACER @geargraphicenvt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

"Let's have another go." "Sure thing, Ka-" "And also... the name's Gear now." #ENVtuber #Vtuberart #vtuber

A screenshot of a neck, coat, beard, mustache, nose and mouth of an eventual vtuber model.

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Hara Rae Sol ✦ V-Tuber ✦ @hararaesol.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I'm gonna be sharing a special lore comic on here soon, keep an eye out! I think we'll do a panel each day starting this weekend! 😉 (art by @rkdvanguard.bsky.social)

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