What am I up to?

Discord adds government ID verification

The short answer to "why I'm leaving Discord" is that they're requiring you to upload your government ID to verify your age for NSFW content.

Impact

Let's be clear: the truth is, this has minimal impact for most people. If you're here, you probably read The Verge article, but if you actually read the Discord press release, you'll see that the "teen by default" policy only affects NSFW channels/servers. The only other thing it affects is that unverified Discord accounts cannot speak in "stage" channels.

Intro

Ok, you know how to scan a QR code for the menu of a joint that sells a burger for $19 (and charges another $5 for fries). But should you?

Intro

I'm an admin on a Discord server for a local org that does community events and such. Mostly we post on Instagram, but some members mentioned that they (understandably) don't want to have to use Instagram to hear about events.

I was tempted to play around with the Instagrapi project that I found on GitHub and build a custom Discord bot for them, but I have too many other projects to fiddle with that right now. So instead, my problem-solving brain thought "surely there's a way to turn an Instagram account into an RSS feed, and then surely there's a Discord bot that can follow an RSS feed." And thus, this solution was born!