Launched in 2015, Discord is less well-known among parents than big names like Instagram, even as it surged to 150 million monthly active users globally during the pandemic. President Joe Biden also used part of his State of the Union address to urge lawmakers to “hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they’re conducting on our children for profit.”ĭiscord, however, has not been part of that conversation. Lawmakers are now weighing legislation to protect kids online – a bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate last month which proposes new and explicit responsibilities for tech platforms to protect children from digital harms. (FB) whistleblower pointed to Instagram’s potential to harm one’s mental health and body image, especially among teenage girls. (FB), Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat’s parent company were called to testify before the Senate after leaks from a Facebook In recent months, large social media companies have faced renewed scrutiny from lawmakers over the negative impacts their platforms can have on teens. “There’s lots of things we should have done in hindsight,” she said. The mother never reported the incident to Discord, and the conversations are no longer available to flag because the account was deleted. After shutting down her daughter’s Discord account, an effort she said took six weeks for the company to complete, she installed outdoor security cameras around the home. The mother worried the Discord user was manipulating, tracking and planning to exploit her daughter. Parents of the social media generation are not OK He then asked what American school buses looked like, so she took a photo of her bus and sent it.” He then requested pictures of her friends, and she sent those, too. “My daughter went on Zillow, found our home and sent it, so he knew where she lives. “I went through every chat they ever had but the most disturbing thing, beyond the nudes, was that he asked her to send a picture of our house,” said the mother, who, like other parents of young Discord users, asked to remain anonymous, citing concerns about their family’s privacy. He asked for nude pictures her daughter obliged. They struck up a friendship in a private thread. The stranger, who said he lived in England, entered a group chat that included her daughter and members of the band, according to the mother. Version 2.1.When a mother in Washington state learned her teenage daughter was on Discord, a popular social media platform, she felt reasonably comfortable with the idea of her using it to communicate with members of her high school marching band.īut in September, the mother discovered the 16-year-old was also using the audio and chat service to message with someone who appeared from his profile picture to be an older man. Version 2.1.1 fixes small issues - STABLE Version 2.2.X introduces proper elapsed run time Version 2.3.0 fixes elapsed time on pause, adds additional presence for menus Latest 3.0.0 updates mod to support the Risk of Rain 2 Anniversary Update Requires R2API, BepInEx and Discord-RPC-Csharp (barebones Unit圓D dlls, see readme) Installation Install using Thunderstore Mod Manager Run and lobby information is broadcast, invites and join requests are allowed Run and lobby information is broadcast, but invites and join requests are disabled The mod provides a privacy setting via console commands, discord_privacy_level, which takes a single integer as an argument: State The current elapsed run time is shown on stages.Įxample of Presence in Multiplayer Lobby: ![]() Hovering over the icon reveals the stage subtitle. The current stage count and stage name are exposed, and icons give an at-a-glance view of the current stage. Rich presence is provided for Classic Runs. Join your friends through Discord, either by inviting them or having them ask to join your game! Show your Discord friends your current run state, invite channels to play, or ask to join a friend, all via Discord! Current Features Risk of Rain 2 does not currently expose game information to Discord, and so this mod was created in order to integrate Risk of Rain 2 with Discord's rich presence system. Discord Rich Presence Install using Thunderstore Mod Manager
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