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@mesalytic
she/her • 18 idiots living into one • dev within our free time
Katılım Kasım 2016
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Can we ban all these MacBook engagement bait posters?
"Did Dell cook MacBook?" (Shows a last-gen Dell)
"Just got a mac what do I install?"
"Is Mac a good investment for Uni?"
"mfs get a mac and start doing work outside"
"Just got a mac, how do I make money?"
Omkar@psomkar1
Did the Dell laptop cooked MacBook ?
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@Baca_b00 @RadisIrradie et bravo t'as compris le souci !!!
Ok c'est le jeu dde la notoriété, je dis pas, mais ça ne mérite pas de se prendre des insultes car "cpadrol"
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@RadisIrradie Du coup alors qu elle s en foute des avis des autres . Elle s expose les gens ont le droit de dire oui j aime non j aime je vois pas le soucis tant que tu es pas insultant .
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Les commentaires qu’elle se prend sont franchement graves. C’est un humour gênant, absurde, et c’est fait exprès. Vous n’aimez pas ? Pas de souci, ce n’est pas votre tasse de thé, ça arrive. En revanche, pas besoin d’être misogynes et abjects .
Ca ne vous rendra pas plus intéressants juste ecoeurants.
Le Meilleur de Twitch 👾@MeilleurDTwitch
Fanny offre un maillot du Brésil à Anyme 🇧🇷⚽️ Avec un bon flocage qui va plaire à la gêné Tasty Crousty 😅
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@RadisIrradie La tolérance 🤣 Ca ne te plaît Pas donc les gens ont tort c'est ca ? On ne doit voir la vie que de ta maniere c'est ca ? Monsieur j'ai passé ma vie a "enquêter" sur des youtubeurs pour exister 🤣
Ok Sir Gibsy, excuse nous de t'avoir offusqué mais laisse les gens vivre garçon
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@M4cron1te So? By this logic, is making pro pedophilia posts appropriate in the Tetris Subreddit???
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Getting mad at Trans people in Fallout subs is like getting at finding fish in the water
Reddit Lies@reddit_lies
Can we not have a trans invasion in every sub?
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@suppafly68 @nadirage10 @AlertesInfos vous voulez toujours le début de l'histoire quand ça concerne vos potes bizarrement
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@nadirage10 @AlertesInfos raconte moi le début de l’histoire petit nazillon lfiste ? 🤡
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@rickcsong "No single organization should know both: 1/ who you are 2/ what you are doing"
Persona has funds and ties to Peter Thiel, so maybe Palantir, and their work is to literally do that?
There's not a chance you can be the one to talk on that
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I believe there’s so much unnecessary confusion, frustration, and debate around age verification because we're treating two very different problems as one:
1/ Stopping kids from seeing inappropriate content
2/ Stopping adults from pretending to be kids
I get why these are discussed together. Too much of (2) increases the risk of (1). But not all platforms face both challenges and certainly not at the same level, and treating them as the same problem leads to the wrong solutions and the wrong tradeoffs.
I’m not a policy maker, but from our work at Persona, I’ve seen that the challenges, risks, and solutions for each of these problems are wildly different.
Keeping kids from inappropriate content is a household-level problem. I don’t want to downplay the risks of social media or exposure to adult content. However, sacrificing broad privacy to solve what is fundamentally a parental controls problem doesn’t feel like a great bargain.
Stopping adults from impersonating kids is a platform-level problem. It jeopardizes the safety and integrity of the community and at its core, it's fraud where adults have far more resources than kids. Unfortunately, the challenge is that more effective solutions tend to compromise more privacy. The best approaches evaluate how much of a tradeoff is worthwhile given the risks.
When the risks of a technology don’t match the benefits of the problem it solves, public concern is justified. Applying fraud prevention techniques to what should be a parental controls problem is overreach. And a half-baked solution to adult impersonation is possibly worse. It’s security theatre where privacy is sacrificed but minimal assurance is gained.
The more I work on this and the more I hear from all of you, the more I believe that if some privacy must be lost, some privacy should be gained elsewhere in return. The right framework is one that splits knowledge to prevent abuse.
No single organization should know both:
1/ who you are
2/ what you are doing
If Persona has to know who you are, we should make sure we don’t know what you’re doing or what app you’re using. And if a platform knows what you’re doing, they shouldn’t know who you are.
This is not where the world is at today, and this framework is by no means perfect. But I think it’s better, and I’d love your feedback as we build it.
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@iwagakure__ @MonkeyDlArabe ils peuvent mais de façade (uniquement pour l'envoi, pas pour la réception)
c'est à cause du protocole utilisé, qui vérifie uniquement lors de la réception, et non de l'envoi
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@mesalytic @MonkeyDlArabe Je pensais pas qu'ils pouvaient usurper le num sans action de notre part
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@iwagakure__ @MonkeyDlArabe c'est du spoofing, càd usurper le numéro de qqn pour envoyer/appeler, y'a pas besoin de se faire hack pour ça malheureusement
les cibles recoivent un msg de son numéro, et quand ils répondent ça renvoie direct sur son numéro (vu que c'est censé être a lui..)
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@Sabine2577 quoi de mieux que culpabiliser les gens
t'as du sang sur les mains sabine
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@rickcsong as much as I want to trust you, I won't.
why should I trust you more than Discord? why should I trust the CEO of a company that is making dystopian tech that is and will be used against us?
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We understand Discord is proceeding with age verification without Persona, but some of the implications in this blog post about the capabilities & features of our platform are patently false.
I’m fine if they don’t want to use us. I’m not okay with them publicly saying untrue things about our age assurance technologies to try to shift responsibility away from their own decisions. Doing so further erodes trust.
> We’ve set a new bar for any partner offering facial age estimation, including that it must be performed entirely on-device, meaning your biometric data never leaves your phone. Persona did not meet that bar.
We offer on-device age verification. We even offered credit-card based age verification for free (their new approach). We made this clear to Discord multiple times.
Throughout our partnership, Discord was explicitly looking for a provider who could prevent “fraud/deepfakes/bots/using video game photo mode to pass age check.”
We were transparent about the real technological limitations and capabilities of on-device solutions, which I shared elsewhere on this platform.
We were upfront that on-device solutions can create a “privacy for only the wealthy” problem where only those with higher-end devices would be able to run the necessary models.
We understood that they had experienced recent bypasses that could cause regulatory scrutiny.
Many of us here at Persona are huge fans of Discord and some have been users since 2015. We were eager and willing to partner with them to address all these challenges.

Discord@discord
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing. Read the update: discord.com/blog/getting-g…
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@kakesinfo @LelloucheNico jsp ou t'as vu que ça parlait de facebook quelque part
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Sur quelle base légale Samsung peut-il faire supprimer les tweets d'un mec qui a acheté un smartphone en avance et diffuse ses propres images ?
Ce n'est pas un leak au sens propre ici, mais une mauvaise gestion de la distribution. Non ?
Holly - I like tech@AnxiousHolly
Samsung is out for blood 💀
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@7CeruleanSeas @ballsgamer420 @teamspeak teamspeak always talk about discord when their software doesn't even match what Discord was 6 years ago
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@werderman197 @Bocchithebwaa @teamspeak so +32 users you need to pay while self-hosting it?
and we wonder why teamspeak failed
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@Bocchithebwaa @teamspeak TS6 beta license is free, up to 32 users. Just need to self host it
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With the incredible surge of new users joining TeamSpeak and subscribing to communities, current hosting capacity has been reached in many regions, especially in the United States. We're working on expanding availability across additional regions.
Thank you for your patience as we scale to meet the growing demand! 🫡
GIF
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I gave Discord 10 years of my life. Now, we all need to start leaving.
I've been using Discord since I was 16 — it'll be 10 years this year. I've never cancelled my Discord Nitro since June 2017, and I've paid €5, then €10 every single month until today.
I became a member of the Discord HypeSquad Online as early as August 2017, then, when the program closed and was replaced by the 3-House HypeSquad test — which has now completely disappeared since summer 2025 — I joined Discord HypeSquad Events in 2019. Back then, you had to film a video to introduce yourself, explain your projects, what Discord had brought to your life. I did it with so much enthusiasm — I was proud to represent this software that had given me a social life for the very first time!
In 2022, I became a Discord Partner. I was one of the last Discord Partners to be accepted before the program was permanently shut down. I remember the joy I felt that day. It was the ultimate achievement! My first application dated back to December 2017, and at the time, Aspekt — I have no idea what became of him — told me that the Partnership was reserved for gaming communities. After yet another rejection, I was so sad that he gave me a t-shirt to comfort me (see the screenshot!).
Everything changed with COVID. Discord wanted to become a platform for everyone, not just gamers. I was really excited about this shift — at the time, I was running a community about autism! In November 2022, I happily attended a meetup for French-speaking Discord Partners on the sidelines of Paris Games Week! That's where I met Discord staff for the first time: Mindy & Eva. I had nowhere to sleep that night, I'd come from far away, I didn't want to miss the event for anything in the world, so they paid for a night in a luxury hotel for me. It was insane — I cried tears of joy.
That's the last good memory I have with Discord.
After that, everything slowly but surely started to fall apart.
The programs closed one after another.
HypeSquad Events, Partner, then Verified. The hiatus remained indefinite, then the servers were deleted or archived. Every time, they promised us it was temporary, yet we could clearly see that one by one, all the Discord staff in charge of community projects were being laid off. It started with Mallory's departure. Discord lost one of its most popular staff members, and it ended with Quikblend's layoff.
Names you all know if you were even slightly involved in the scene between 2017 and 2024.
As you've probably gathered, I had a genuine autistic obsession with Discord. I still regularly wear my Partner hoodie, I proudly display the figurine given to all Partners — the last gift Discord ever gave its community program at Christmas 2023. Discord was THE PLACE TO BE. The team truly listened to us, there was a real sense of equality between the community and its representatives. I've lost count of how many community projects brought us all together. Never had a social platform managed to be so much on the side of its users.
And now, everything has changed. None of this happened overnight. Over the years, Discord was taken over. By whom, why, I don't know. I didn't look into it.
They started force-feeding us Nitro ads, moderation became opaque, with no contact whatsoever possible with the Trust & Safety team anymore. Discord's 10th anniversary was, and I'm not joking, one of the most anticlimactic events in History. I have better memories of the 7th anniversary than the 10th!
And then advertising arrived in the form of Quests. And then the cosmetics shop, name plates, avatar decoration. And as if that wasn't enough, to really milk us like cash cows, gradient colors and server guilds require additional boosts to be used. And there I am, like an idiot, still buying.
I'm sorry to put it this way, but everything has turned to shit.
The nail in the coffin for me was the announcement of mandatory age verification for everyone. Even though, in theory, I wouldn't be affected — having recently received a message from Discord saying I'd been placed in the adults group — I am disgusted by this ultimate betrayal, this umpteenth spit in the face of a community whose staff was once closer than ever.
Discord holds a monopoly on instant messaging.
After climbing the ranks, overcoming adversity, burying its competitors, Discord did what every company in its position has done: enshittification.
I don't blame them for everything. I understand that the internet bubble born from COVID burst, that spending cuts had to be drastic, but in the meantime, something changed at Discord. A Reddit user was already warning in 2024 about deteriorating working conditions, and you can find plenty of testimonies on Glassdoor.
They haven't been on our side for a long time, and if I needed one last piece of proof to convince myself, here it is. Palantir, Peter Thiel, the Epstein Files. This post is already long enough without me adding more — do your own research, it's vomit-inducing.
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm now actively looking for an alternative to Discord.
The transition won't happen overnight, and since my social life is still essentially on this platform, it'll take me months, maybe 1 to 2 years, but I'm going to leave this app, and I fully intend to take my entire community with me.
Discord has had its time, and from now on, I'm calling for the emergence of an alternative with its own identity, one capable of going back to the roots of what made Discord successful in the first place. The fact is that Discord is now incapable, in every regard, of embodying that.I am so, so disappointed. These memories only live in my head now.
Now, we all need to start leaving.
They really ruined everything.




Kotaku@Kotaku
Discord distances itself from age verification firm after ties to Palantir's Peter Thiel surface kotaku.com/discord-palant…
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