Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.
Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.
Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.



Download one of these 8 apps that’s only available through a website or F-Droid, 2 haven’t updated in 2 years, no we won’t tell you which.
no they’re not servers, it just is where your account info lives, and nothing else
there’s no “Explore” mode, there’s 20 websites that list servers, 5 of them are outdated, another 5 only work on a Tuesday, 10 of them only list 100/20,000 public servers
Oh. They’re all quiet as fuck. All of them. What’s the point?
Just use the Element client on desktop and Element X on mobile. Use the Matrix.org homeserver by the matrix foundation if you don’t know any other/better choice for you personally. Bam and you’re in. I actually really value the choice in clients tho. With the decentralized way of Matrix there’s lots of options but just pick the mainstream once for starters
Doesn’t solve the last two points
Well its not discord so ofc there’s not as much traffic. And the decentralized listing is just part of the decentralized nature of it. Lemmy also doesn’t have as much traffic as reddit yet here we are
Lemmy at least has built-in discoverabilty, you can search the entire federation, with ease, all from the search UI
Also the sign-up process is much much clearer and faster.
I can search users and spaces across any federated matrix server