I worked as an EMT for a few years. I didn't like the structure of the training. The education portions are insufficient, to say the least. I believe most EMTs/paramedics don't have enough education under their belts to perform the tasks they do. Most of these people learn from working on the job. You get a call, get the patient to the facility, then learn from it. I also didn't appreciate the "fake it till you make it" mantra that many people in EMS liked to repeat.

I'm not going to test this myself, but anyone can filter 'Mature Sexual Media' and 'Graphic Media' in their settings. You can configure Discord to block it. Wouldn't that same error occur if a user chooses to have that content blocked?

Most people won’t bother to check that, and all underage users will have that checked. This method still has perfect recall and very high precision.

It's on by default for strangers

Sometime i dont want to reveal my age to "new friend on internet"

It won't. Most people don't care about privacy or FOSS. I've been trying to get my friends to switch to something else for years, and they couldn't care less.

ID verification is the least of my worries, to be honest. I've been on the internet long enough to acknowledge a need for something like that. I'm uncomfortable with the fact that data is a valuable commodity now. Discord is storing my online habits and conversations somewhere on their servers. Deleting that information is deleting money.

If people weren't worried about that before, then they certainly won't care now.

You're quite wrong in your assumptions. Most Discord users are moving away from the platform. Fluxer is gaining traction very quickly.

> Most Discord users are moving away from the platform

I dread the day I'll make claims like this, even figuratively.

Even at a most surface level reading, this would suggest something like their MAU (monthly active users) at least halving soon/already.

I'd be very surprised if it was trending down even, let alone at this! Forget hyperbole, this is an outright überbole.

By all means though, got any data?

It took down Teamspeak and several other alternatives last time discord tried this: https://www.techdigest.tv/2026/02/discord-discord-triggers-s...

Anecdotally, I suddenly had almost my entire friend group on matrix after that as well. I had campaigned for months but AV was the thing that got them to finally sign up.

I would put money down that 50% of discord users are not moving away from the platform and won't before the end of the year. And if I'm wrong I happily get to move to a new platform so it's a win win bet :v

It's really a shame, though. btrfs is permanently unfinished, and zfs has the wrong license. End result is people stick with ext4 or xfs most of the time anyway.