Link: https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

Discord: Sorry, we spied and report on you through software from a bad company. Be assured, we will spy and report on you through good company software from now on!

[Insert South Park "We're Sorry" scene here]

Also, given the state of affairs and the lack of trust, I dont believe they are cutting them off. Assume the worst and do what you can to decouple from the platform I dont expect people to quit cold-turkey, but put in the effort, it takes a long time to degoogle yourself and given how ubiquitous discord was during the plague, I dont fault people for making sure lines of communication and contacts arnt broken.

We should pretty much assume that all age verification efforts either currently are feeding into surveillance efforts, or will be bought out by surveillance companies.

Reminder: this changes nothing in their age verification requirements or telemetry gathering and training off your data/habits. They’re just going to use another invasive third party.

Whoops we accidentally picked something that will give the government your data. That wasn't our intention. Instead we're going to use an independent service so the government will have to buy it from us.

Discord is fucked. You love to see it.

Where did you move? We're planning on stoat for our little server

I tried hosting my own TS server recently and it's easy as shit. Not as many features sure, but it's so snappy and it just works. Ideally I'd move to mumble and host it on some old laptop but as a backup thing I can't complain

Too fuckin bad Discord. Damage is done.

I went back to IRC a couple of weeks ago and it's been such a breath of fresh air to use good technology again.

Thiel is in the Epstein files, literally is funding the destruction of our democracy and all democracies worldwide everyone Thiel should be arrested and charged with treason and sent to the hauge and be tried for crimes against humanity

Teamspeak requires you to pay for a license to host a community of greater than 32 people though. I have much more faith in Fluxer, which just came out recently and has its servers getting hammered right now. It will have true self-hosting and federation. Also it looks exactly like Discord which probably makes moving to it easier.

A nothingburger apology that follows the same patterns every company does

1. Introduce outrageous thing

2. Apologize

3. delay outrageous thing by a few months and hope people forgot about it, then do it again

I dunno. The current state of the world might be making me more conspiracy-minded, but this feels like it was always part of the plan.

Introduce surveillance tech that Peter Thiel can use to spy/sell/whatever, announce that you're using it, expecting people to get angry, and now in the 11th hour, after harvesting all the data they get to announce "we're removing the evil software! We're the good guys again!"

I recognize that the current state of affairs is having me see demons everywhere, but I just can't bring myself to give discord a pat on the back.

Exactly. Even if a smaller company is running ID verification now there's a very good chance they'll be bought up by a monster later and take all that data with them.

Matrix might be worth a try too. It's kind of like a modernized IRC with limited discord-like functionality.

Stoat also seems pretty good, though it's more centralized than I'd like.

It's worse than that. They've said what they want to do and they want to get rid of democracy in place of a technocracy surveillance state.

Not just in them, good friends with Epstein and conspired with him to destabilise the west.

Trump, thiel, musk - all their dads were Nazis.

Trump's dad hated black people and sheltered Nazis and the KKK, Thiel's dad is from a Nazi town in South Africa, Musk's father and grandfather went to South Africa just for the racism.

They're all stuck in that, and catching feelings because of it.

Too late Discord. I will never come back.

This reminded me a whole lot of OnlyFans deciding to ban porn.

Just... stupid.

Too late! I'm moving to Fluxer!

https://matrix.org/ has been around for years and has had true self-hosting and federation from the start.

Discord publicly cut ties. What could they possibly do to convince us that it was legit?

What a load of shit.

"Company cuts ties with leopard after customers notice leopard".

At this point, as a tech industry insider, you don't partner with the likes of Thiel or Karp without fully understanding who you're getting into bed with, or why.

Matrix is lacking all sorts of features and proper UX. I used it through multiple front-ends and every time it's just not good enough yet.

*after people found out it was tied to USA surveillance

Peter thiel is everything wrong with the world.

He is a plague, a cancer, a curse.

He is in the Epstein files.

He likely had his gay lover killed for revealing he was gay.

Peter thiel is the enemy of humanity.

Peter thiel is an antichrist

What uhh... What did they expect people to use it for?

https://youtu.be/XwrJUn4ViaU

These corporations just keep giving me new reasons to reference this bit from Pat Boivin!

Conceptually, it's always supposed to have been something akin to Patreon, where creators can be supported by fans via a subscription model. A combination of lax rules around nudity and probably sheer inertia meant that "creators" ended up being pretty much only sex workers. OF then tried to pivot away from that and we all knows how well that went.

Ive hosted my own TS3 server for well over a decade and matrix was spooled up this past year. They both are good products and server their roles, but they dont line up 100% with Discord and its user reach.

I am hopefull TS6 gets the funding it needs to get out of beta and I wish the Fluxer dev the best (they are going to need it).

What this whole discord debacle needs to teach people is how to be independent regarding your communications, data and their storage.

Yeah, they are only cutting ties due to the attention. They'll replace it with something just as bad, or worse.

I deleted Discord and will not return.

Also governments.

https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer

Neat

Maybe I can spin something up for family to use instead of SMS.

Yeah, they’re doing the right thing here as a PR move, they may have known about the shady bullshit or they might not have but if they didn’t I bet they didn’t even ask or care in any way.

Still time to find discord alternatives, luckily the landscape of alternatives seems a bit better than I expected.

No idea. :D

I'm absolutely deleting my discord account once they update it with the age verification. The matrix protocol is a reasonable alternative https://joinmatrix.org/

Am I the only going back to IRC? I'm not a gamer so I just use it for chat and setting up my own irc was straight forward. Even set up a webui for my friends who don't know how navigate irc through regular clients.

Too late hahahaha

I think stoat would be viable of they had voice chat working with their self hosting option but yeah, right now it's a no for me because of that.

I saw a report earlier today that they've "postponed" the age verification due to public backlash. If they DO implement it, I'm gone.

Too little too late fuck you discord.

Cut ties huh? Isn't he their main VC investor?

America has been a surveillance state since 2002. also America controls Israel, not the other way around

Deleted my discord rooms, left every room i was in, requested my acct deleted, uninstalled from every device. Moved to matrix & fluxer.

Peter Theil doesn't seem driven by religion to me... He sees religion as a tool, like all powerful people.