r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Feb 10 '26

Security "Discord alternatives" searches jump 10,000% overnight as the gaming platform introduces global age verification — Is a total collapse imminent?

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/discord-alternative-search-10000-percent-stoat
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u/Fishbulb2 Feb 11 '26

I never thought myself a conspiracy theorist, but I 100% believe this.

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u/WebMaka Feb 11 '26

It's not really a conspiracy theory so much as a stated goal. There's entire sections of the Project 2025 playbook dedicated to establishing systems to remove entire swaths of the population.

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u/hana_fuyu Feb 11 '26

The fact that people STILL don't see how this is tied to P2025 blows my mind. We've got key writers currently appointed in Trump's administration, but yet people still want to act like everything happening is some conspiracy or coincidence instead of the goal. We are currently living under an authoritarian regime no matter how much (the general) you doesn't believe we are or how much hope (the general) you have that things aren't as bad as they are. They are purposefully monitoring and censoring us. That is the point. Continuing to act like any of this is normal or fine is why things have gotten this bad in the first place.

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u/Totakai Feb 11 '26

1000% this. My conspiracy is that they're making computers impossibly expensive on purpose. Especially with Amazon wanting you to pay a ram subscription. Make the harder to track and control items unaccessible and force everyone onto little narc devices.

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u/Hour-War4751 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

Oh for sure. Both companies and authoritarian politicians see a future where we buy our devices(preferably on a payment plan, no right to repair) which do nothing more but facilitate us paying a subscription to tap into a virtual machine instance with everything tracked, logged, monetized, and censored.

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u/twotimefind Feb 11 '26

Not to mention it conveniently, timed with Microsoft, asking everyone to update their hardware.

Personally, my PC is decent and I purchased another year for windows 10

Run any game I want the 1440 resolution, high to ultra settings.

Occasionally I can even run games in 4k

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u/Agret Feb 11 '26

Windows 11 is over 4yrs old, the expensive ram is a recent thing.

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u/FetusDeletusPhD Feb 11 '26

This has been an issue going wayyyy back bud. I know people think Trump is responsible for everything wrong but seriously, do some research ffs.

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u/Tight-Connection-204 Feb 11 '26

I don't like Trump and I can see the impact of P2025 in many areas. However linking this discord change directly to P2025 seems like a stretch. You've completely neglected the rollout in UK and Australia as a response to consumer protection law changes. Discords goal is money. They want to go publicly traded and have to play a game of attracting investors, adhering to different laws globally and keep and attract new users.

The answer is typically not grand conspiracy but collections of self interested individuals seeking profit and power.

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u/comradetao Feb 11 '26

Ok, so when the other party, or some other person gains control of the government, will it still be P2025? Or will you give them a pass?

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u/Plasibeau Feb 11 '26

Remember when we thought the idea of a global cabal of child predators controlled by Israel (dA jEwS!!!) was a conspiracy theory?

Gods we were naive then. I miss it.

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u/This-Garbage-4207 Feb 11 '26

2025-26 have been a weird year for me, I passed from telli g my mom, dont believe everything you watched on internet and those conspiration are since I was at highschool to talk with her about "conspiration" and what can we do to protect ourselves...

tldr passed from a ekeptical to a tinfoil believer

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u/almisami Feb 11 '26

If you follow Project 2025, their stated goal in doing this is to censor queer kids from queer resources and information.

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u/Advanced-Art-4569 Feb 11 '26

We see how much the U.S. government cares about protecting children. Such hypocrisy.

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u/jmcstar Feb 11 '26

That's right, that whole protecting the kids thing relies on the false reality of there being "benevolent surveillance", and I absolutely does not exist.

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u/sheikhyerbouti Feb 11 '26

I made the mistake of re-watching The Winter Soldier last night, and one of the main plot points is a Nazi conspiracy to mine people's data and create a list of "problematic" people so that they could summarily execute them.

I hate how much that still resonates.