The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.

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    8 months ago

    From the article, the data collection hinges on a bot going into a public server then scraping the history. Still a problem that Discord should act on, but it looks like there is no need to worry about private servers.

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      8 months ago

      Does anyone know what kind of naming pattern or bot identification methods we could use? I belong to a small public server that’s there to serve a public need.

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        8 months ago

        You could probably have a verification system thing that I’ve seen some public servers have where you have to complete some action before getting access to the actual channels.

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      8 months ago

      “private” = small ‘servers’ that aren’t in the public index (I think you have to have like 500 people to be eligible or something), or…?

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      8 months ago

      If they could somehow make this data available to search engines. Maybe we can start being able to google random problems and actually find solutions again.

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      This is assuming the bots are allowed (or, at least not prevented in coming) in by the server admin and the bot is not obfuscated some how. If the bots are taking advantage of an expolit, or not being up front, then we have trouble.

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      8 months ago

      the content being scraped is from users, they do not control what bots are added to servers.

      It’s much more like the Cambridge Analytics scandal in that users posted content that was shared with friends but not explicitly shared publicly, but those friends then granted a third party access to all of the data.

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    8 months ago

    it redirects to a video of the infamous Jonah Jameson’s “Are you serious?” scene from Spider-Man

    No, it hosts the video. DMCA!!1!!1!!!

    Edit: Italicized “hosts”. Wish we could use the <em> tag.

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    8 months ago

    Deleted discord recently because of the ads. Glad I did as iv been looking for reason to delete it for a while.

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    8 months ago

    Time to switch to alternative open source ones: Revolt, Matrix, Spacebar…

    Revolt looks and functions the most like Discord.

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    8 months ago

    I don’t have a Discord history, so that’s one problem taken care of.