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yeahitsgreat12 commented on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/1659447091

rchaud · 8 months ago

I'm on several UK-based soccer message boards and none of this seems to be required there. The forums are running on Xenforo or PhpBB, self-hosted by the admin. Some of those forums have thousands of user accounts registered.

Is Discord considered to be different as it's a centralized aggregator platform like Reddit, vs a standalone thing like a message board?

yeahitsgreat12 · 8 months ago

I haven't read the article. They aren't coming for Evoweb next are they? The UK is looking screwed man... something bad is cooking there...

yeahitsgreat12 commented on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator · Posted by u/dang

yeahitsgreat12 · 9 months ago

How does such a large famous forum get by with 1 computer and 2 mods. Theres no spam here. No fighting. How odd for the internet in 2025 XD

yeahitsgreat12 commented on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

yen223 · 9 months ago

I was hoping this article went deeper into the Guardian's somewhat unusual ownership model, because I find it interesting and would love to learn more.

The Guardian is owned by (and I think largely funded by?) a trust that was intentionally set up in a way to ensure no commercial interest could interfere with the paper. How well it achieved that goal is, of course, debatable, but it has survived nearly a century in that form.

yeahitsgreat12 · 9 months ago

Yeah right. And pigs just flew past my window. Because billionaires definitely don't pre-hide their fingerprints in some shady 'independent trust' while we all pretend the article just wrote itself out of the goodness of corporate hearts.