/slap was perfectly enough fun for me without sacrificing the freedom of my peers and myself.

I use Discord all day and it's not for gaming. It's to involve myself in specific communities. And I'm not looking to migrate to a platform that caters specifically to gamers, because it will eventually make the same anti-user tradeoffs that Discord has made over the years, as ad money and payment processors and stakeholders continue to boil the frog.

This sudden news is very unwelcome. Unless something changes, I will begin the process of leaving each server, making whatever off-channel connections I need, then deleting my account, and either choosing or developing an alternative which suits my needs.

> They don't care that much that the search doesn't work well. They don't care that it's centralized. They don't even really care much about this age verification check!

Yes, and that's the problem. Manufactured consent cannot be used as a justification for further manufactured consent.