If throngs of people handed over their IDs in exchange for a vanity blue check from a site that was untrustworthy even before it turned pro-authoritarian, what reason is there to think meaningful numbers of Discord users won't do the same?
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@dangoodin I was just talking about this to @lorenzofb lmao
@dangoodin Is there going to be a gray market for IDs so teenagers can get approved as adults?
My impression is that Discord is more replaceable than Twitter because you really only have to move one relatively self-contained community at a time rather than the whole freakin' world, and it is a lot easier for each community's leader to say "meet me at [Zulip|Discourse|DeltaChat|Slack|etc.]" than it is to get every noteworthy Twitter account to migrate.
@DaveMWilburn @dangoodin As Dave notes, a lot of this is community-sensitive. Discourse only has a future if gamer kids decide it does. So the question is really whether faking ID is worth it, or if alternatives fill the gap. Twitter was already a millennial project by the time it Nazified; but Discourse still skews younger. I truly have no idea how that will affect inclinations, but I also think any alternative needs to be resistant to further legislation down this path.