Mastodawn

YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉

Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!

IT WORKS! ✊🔒

https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/

Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.

But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.

This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.

Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Discord #PrivacyWin

Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac

Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...

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v Feb 25

@Em0nM4stodon Its a small win. I've been trying to get my friends to move over to Matrix, but its been an uphill battle. I also really hated the "hello fellow privacy enthusiasts" tone of the CTO's blog post.

Not sure if its been brought up, but using the wayback machine it looks like Discord only listed 2 new roles, a privacy engineer and privacy counsel in the past 2 weeks.

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eclexic Feb 25

@SwiftVoltas @Em0nM4stodon It's more than an uphill battle. The UX in all matrix clients is basically a non-starter for anyone I know IRL. Element especially, but that's the only one with calls. The UI is cluttered with data the average user doesn't understand, and it's surprisingly easy to break things.

I don't think it's a battle I'm capable of winning until the UX improves significantly. The security doesn't even factor in for people I know IRL. I just have to accept what they will tolerate.

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Zughy

@theeclecticdyslexic @SwiftVoltas @Em0nM4stodon this @element