I'm pissed off that when I finally start getting a chance to learn things I want and do a bunch of other stuff in life the Internet is turning to hell. Just going to cut a lot of rambling about my situation, but I am someone who had no IRL friends growing up so I know what growing up on the Net is like and I disapprove
"oh companies already have your data" So just even more of it is okay? More vulnerabilities etc? Dawg I don't even post pictures of my face to anyone. Because my camera is probably scanning it anyway, because cameras are everywhere outside, should I just go share it with everyone? It's not like you can't find out who anyone on this thread is but are people really spreading these false equivalencies? Stop. That line of logic needs to stop. It's been proven time and time again that these kinds of vectors become targets when people want them and larger concentrations like this are going to be very wanted targets, literally this same app had this problem last year.
It's absolutely embarrassing to have grown up being told not to put my personal data onto anything online only to see a lot of the same people who did, or would have told me that, have fully detailed Facebook accounts or full name needlessly tied to things, and no or minimal concern with these overreaches
Anyway Discord can suck it, I'll use it with no age verification, luckily for me I already moved on from 18+ communities for me but unlucky that now my hand is forced and the opportunity is gone. Me not being directly affected =/= no problem, and I am very much indirectly affected. So much for sharing and selling a lot of the art that I wanted to! Like, when it comes to anatomical studies too, what do I do wrt that? This hurts my goddamn artist soul, back to just finding hiding spaces. Everyone I know with 18+ spaces is going to be much more hush about them now, it's lucky I have a few good friends so I have a bit of a foot in the door there but if I was just an adult using Discord for the first time then I probably wouldn't even have gotten to know these people. And it's just back to this daisy chain nonsense know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy...
As for children on the Internet sad to say I've seen so many just lie and use workarounds to get into inappropriate spaces anyway I think that will always happen, I think people are unwilling to face some things on the Internet are actually good for kids (as in: educational and safe space content, absolutely NOT 18+ stuff, don't even start)- these regulations inevitably hit those, see youtube in aus, and will be used against minority groups- and this is a case parents should be parenting and mods should be moderating,
"but parents don't have time" as always, the problem goes back to the oligarchy bleeding us dry and leaving us without recreational time. And if you don't want the responsibility I'mma be blunt, don't have children because this is now your obligation and they will try to workaround regardless of laws. Society in general needs reform lol
"but we can't, that's too large of an issue" Look, I don't know what to do. But this is not it.
Better first step / attempt / solution, and my best bet as to "we should do this instead": let us control our algorithms. But there's no money in that and it would actively impede the oligarchy, which is why we don't get it. Isn't it rich that all these discussions about inappropriate content and misinformation are only about children... here I am watching my failure of a dad complain about "the homos" on the phone and unironically believing racist rhetoric while I'm in the same room. He'll call POC slurs all day, no hesitation, and I think the only reason he won't say the F-Slur in front of me is that he knows he will face my retribution. I WONDER HOW AN ADULT CAN BELIEVE THESE THINGS AND IF THEY DESERVE ANY PROTECTION OR CONTROL FROM IT. I WONDER IF PERHAPS ANY COMPANIES MANIPULATED PEOPLE AND DESERVE PUNISHMENT FOR PROLIFERATING HATE AND BIGOTRY
but like always, populace footing the bill for the oligarchies, and we can't even complain without people going "oh but things already suck anyway what's the problem"
^ my angriest post on this site ever probably. this sucks.
hopefully my friends or most of them will also make stoat and matrix accounts, which i intend to do as backup. the problem with just switching from discord is that the entire point is to connect with other people, so if the people you know aren't switching with you, then you get nothing
