Age verification is being extended to block vast areas of the Internet.
That means millions of people handing over ID documents and biometric data to unregulated providers.
It becomes a treasure trove for hackers, as has already been seen since introducing age checks with the Discord data leak.
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship #discord
Discord joke that it's The Year of the Linux Desktop gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/discโฆ
#Discord #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamOS #LinuxGaming
The Year of the Linux Desktop is finally here! Sort of. Well, not really but it's getting there and Discord has seen some nice improvements lately.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord is finally less of a nuisance to update on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/discโฆ
#Discord #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS
The Discord team just revealed another major update for the social chat platform, and Linux gets a little attention this time too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord rolls out a nice improvement for video calls on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/discโฆ
With the most recent big stable update released for Discord, they rolled out a nice improvement for video calls on Linux making them better than ever.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Oh dear - ARC Raiders was logging your private Discord chats gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/oh-dโฆ
Here's a reminder that when you connect up various accounts - you may end up just increasing the risk of your private data going somewhere else.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Microsoft is angry over the term "Microslop."
itsfoss.com/news/microsoft-angโฆ
#microsoft #discord #microslop
Microsoft banned "Microslop" on its Copilot Discord community, locked the server, and then blamed spammers.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discโฆ
In the ongoing crazy saga of the internet getting gated behind new age verification laws, Discord are putting on the brakes temporarily.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord attempt to put out the fires with a clarification over new age verification gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discโฆ
Discord have released some clarifications around the new forced age verification system coming worldwide next month, as people look to flee the platform.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord is about to require age verification for everyone gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discโฆ
Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Looking for a self-hosted alternative to Discord? Roomy is worth a look. ๐
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Looking for a Discord alternative? Roomy is an open-source, decentralized platform built for communities that value privacy and control.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.
Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.
discord.com/press-releases/updโฆ
At Discord, protecting the privacy and security of our users is a top priority. Thatโs why itโs important to us that weโre transparent with them about events that impact their personal information.discord.com
Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/discโฆ
The developer team at Discord released a new engineering blog post yesterday (December 8th) detailing lots of fixes, along with some Linux improvements.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Around 70,000 users affected in Discord related breach which includes some government ID images gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/arouโฆ
Ouch. This whole ongoing online safety thing is going well isn't it? Who could have guessed that some personal data would end up leaking? Everyone with a brain.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/discโฆ
As Discord forces in more adverts and paid customization towards becoming a public company the CEO and Co-Founder, Jason Citron, has announced they're stepping down as CEO.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord wants developers to stick it inside their games with a new SDK gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/discโฆ
One of the great things about modern online gaming is how (usually) easy it is to link up with friends. You have your friends list on Steam, GOG, Epic and others but what about Discord? They want a bigger piece of the pie now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord Canary on Linux breaks Wayland screen-sharing support for now gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/discโฆ
Recently I shared the news that Discord Canary had fixed full Wayland screen-sharing on Linux with working audio, but it has been removed again.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Looks like Discord finally fixed Linux screen and audio sharing with Wayland gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/lookโฆ
A while ago in November, it seems I missed a post from a user in the GamingOnLinux Discord server, noting that the Discord developers finally hooked up screen and audio sharing for Linux with Wayland.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
These discord AI summaries are comedy gold
Discord Overlay for Linux adds PulseAudio / PipeWire integration gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/discโฆ
Discover Overlay, an open source Discord Overlay for Linux has a new release available with v0.7.3 adding in some useful new features.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord Overlay for Linux v0.7.0 should improve idling and on battery power gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/discโฆ
Discover, not to be confused with the KDE Discover software store, is a Discord overlay for Linux and the first update in a while is out now with version 0.7.0.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord for Linux gets Flathub Verified gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/discโฆ
Discord, the massively popular messaging platform for text, voice and video has now been fully Verified on Flathub and so it's now official from the developers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
This sucks so much. I kept telling numerous people " #discord is NOT a forum, it is an IRC app, stop building your communities in it around stuff that needs to be found with a search engine and archived, it's a bad idea for numerous reasons including the overpopulation of server topics in an app that has a 100 server limit" but nobody listened. I hate being right.
We're about to have yet ANOTHER internet library of alexandria situation assuming this shit retroactively applies to existing stuff.
After years of technical debt, Discord has announced a big change is coming to their username system to make it easier to find the people you want to connect with.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
@tyil If you like #Discord then wait till you tried #Zulip:
Cuz that stuff's even better!
zulip.com/why-zulip/
Make better decisions, faster with chat thatโs organized right. Follow the discussions that matter to you, easily and efficiently, in real time or asynchronously.Zulip
Did some research on #SteamDeck. Seems like #SteamDeck supports #Flatpak. In fact, it would be the preferred application install method.
So I can install #Discord with Flatpak on a SteamDeck and chat over it.
The bad news is Discord client with Flatpak doesn't support game overlay.
flathub.org/apps/details/com.dโฆ
Find and install hundreds of apps and games for Linux. Enjoy GIMP, GNU Octave, Spotify, Steam and many more!flathub.org
