Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
yknow, i would like to see reported figures as to why discord isn’t actually able to host file sizes over a certain size…
axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The problem in discord never deletes files, no matter how old they are. So they have a perpetually growing storage need
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
seems like a skill issue to me. Surely they would delete them on the banishment of a server, old servers die pretty frequently. Channels are deleted. Etc.
GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 2 months ago
These companies hoard data they might have an use for but not even know how yet. Training AI and shit. Deleting stuff ain’t in their dictionary.
ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 months ago
For real.
I emailed them once asking about how they were complying with GDPR regulations if they didn’t allow users a way to delete all their message details, and didn’t even have a procedure for GDPR requests, only their standard, much worse privacy-wise account deletion process. They claimed it was because they had a legitimate interest to keep any messages not individually deleted, so the chats would still look coherent after an account was deleted.
They only delete your message if you delete it individually, so naturally, I was concerned, since you can’t delete messages in a server you were banned from, or left, and Discord provides no way for you to identify old messages in servers you’re not currently in.
They eventually, supposedly, sent my concerns to their data privacy team.
They were then sued for 800,000 euros about a month or two later.
They still don’t allow you to mass delete your message data. They really want to hold onto it for as long as they can.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
we really do live in a dystopia don’t we.
Anyway this seems like a great excuse to not limit the file uploads, and just pay for more storage considering you could like, sell it, but what do i know.