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.

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    Damn my girlfriend and I just migrated from fb messenger to discord a few days ago. She isn’t tech minded, but it’s been good with sharing TV with each other and organizing things

    We were already planning on trying Whatsapp next week. Kinda trying multiple messaging apps. Hopefully it’s a good spot to land

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      2 hours ago

      https://signal.org/

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

      Signal is an open-source, encrypted messaging service for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls

      It is developed by the nonprofit Signal Foundation and its subsidiary Signal Messenger LLC. Signal’s software is free and open-source. Its mobile clients, desktop client, and server are all published under the AGPL-3.0-only license

      I finally got my parents onto it, and have been pretty happy with it as an alternative to Facebook Messenger.