At some point they'll just resort to calling the metric "person type" and the gender and age will be baked into it. They'll then use that "person type" metric to determine what you want to see, hear and consume.
So, is there a reason they could be doing this?<p>Like from Discord's perspective, what would this actually accomplish business wise?<p>I'm kinda drawing a blank here.
as long as they are accurate I do not mind. I was annoyed that as women who is also an engineer google's ad profile always insisted I was a single man. Despite my many skincare/make up/ and women's clothing/shoe purchases. I guess they weighted reference schematics and data sheet searches more heavily than other things. If you are going to show me targeted ads please make them ads I want to see.
I wonder if Discord may end up using this in some capacity to determine whether someone may be under the age of 13, which is the minimum age you need to be in order to have an account according to their terms of service.
The beginning of enshitification of discord (while 100% expected) for some reason hits harder then any other service I've used throughout all these years. It has entirely replaced social media for me. It just felt more organic to me then anything else.<p>So... since I've heard about the ads coming to discord, I have looked into alternatives.<p>They do exist, in varying quality, and there are programs for some of them that make a "bridge" from a discord server to your new platform. It's possible to have your cake and eat it to.<p>Matrix looks really close, but it needs ALOT of love. I have high hopes for matrix because of the idea of it. Perhaps my lackluster experience was because I didn't choose the best client available. I'm still trying new things here.<p><a href="https://matrix.org/" rel="nofollow">https://matrix.org/</a><p>Revolt is the more complete product as of today.<p><a href="https://revolt.chat/" rel="nofollow">https://revolt.chat/</a><p>Spacebar I have yet to try but it's on my radar.<p><a href="https://github.com/spacebarchat">https://github.com/spacebarchat</a><p>I just wanted to see if anyone else had other recommendations for me to try. I really would appreciate help here. Hopefully something open source and self hosted so I can <i>stop migrating</i> and sink some roots in somewhere.<p>Oh crap, is it IRC?
Discord last month announced they would be adding advertising to their app.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903541">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903541</a><p>This would make sense with regards to this. It's essential data to be able to sell ads to companies.<p>If you are an open source or community project on the platform you should probably set up a Libre alternative...
Well... Might hit hard a large slice of anagraphically adults witch are still mentally children... Some might even trigger scandals being in significant positions in the social pyramid...
Discord is also using Ml to determine the topic of conversation in a voice channel and share it to potential listeners to decide if they want to join the conversation or not.<p>Frankly I find that unacceptable since the expectation is if no one is in the channel but the person you’re talking with you wouldn’t expect randoms to be pseudo listening in.<p>Edit: Not certain why I've been downvoted, I can easily provide proof in the form of screenshots
The commentary here shows how ignorant people are with things like mandatory reporting and protecting underage children from online predators. Discord is most assuredly a vector for attack, and someone pretending to be some other age or being under age is very much a real issue that is not uncommon on even smaller social networks.<p>While I'm sure some of this is related to advertising and marketing, the simple fact is, any social network (of which you can lump Discord into) will already be doing things similar to this, even if not for advertising. If not, they are willfully ignorant.<p>This isn't some "pretend" problem either. Anyone suggesting otherwise is ignorant. It's that simple.
In this thread, people don't understand the size and scope of the Pig Butchering problem or Sexploitation scam problem or the Underage User problem or the Revenge Reporting problem or how ML can be used for the user's benefit and safety or for anti-crime. But you know, go on and assume any and all technology is used for $$$$ and never to you know, stop grandmas from losing their life savings or kids from being talked to by pedophiles.