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Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️

February 14, 2026 at 6:06 PM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

3 weeks till my birthday!

February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM

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Brian M

@legendofnerd.bsky.social

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults.

Hey folks –

I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news.

I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.)

Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence.

Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details.

And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

4 weeks till my birthday!

February 7, 2026 at 2:06 PM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

5 weeks till my birthday!

January 31, 2026 at 11:43 PM

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A.D. Wills

@adwills.bsky.social

lore runs deep and snow just keeps falling

a meme

a rooftop covered in a massive amount of snow labelled "the OC lore contained within me at any given time" and someone on the bottom right corner of the rooftop starting to shovel a small clearing that's labelled "the OC lore I've publicly shared"

November 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

WIP Teaser for something I'm currently working on.

January 15, 2026 at 6:28 AM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

FOUND IT!

For context, when uploaded this pic for SHADEtober (2024) I took a screenshot from Dying Light 2 to use as a background. I decided to do a little contest for anyone who can find the exact spot in DL2 and get free art RQs for a full year. Something even I was having trouble finding until just now. lol

January 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

Hello, everyone. Just a friendly reminder that "Boomer" does NOT mean "old." It means you were born during the "Babyboom" following WWII. You don’t become a Boomer when you turn 30, you’re still a millennial. Stop it.

January 10, 2026 at 7:26 PM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

So I just found out that bananas are actually radioactive.
I've been eating at least 1 a day for the past year now.
Eventually it'll give me superpowers!

January 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

I wander what she’s thinking about?

January 2, 2026 at 7:04 AM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

Number 1 Upload of 2025!

January 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

December 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

Made this while my friend and I were discussing Kirby on discord and how for a series about a pink marshmallow who eats people and copies their powers, he has some horrifying bosses. So as he was telling me that, I thought “hey, what if Kirby inhaled LM and got his powers like in Smash?” lol

December 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

Starting to get the hang of doing paper art.

December 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM

Neo Comet

@neocomet.bsky.social

What I hate most about Christmas being over is the fact that we spent the last 2 months prepping for the season and once the season ends it's just... "Now what?"

December 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM