Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

donuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This isn’t even them scraping private chats and small servers, they just scraped public servers in the discovery tab. None of that information was ever private, and every user can browse the chat history there.

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  • donuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, exactly. It may sound scary or like a violation of privacy, but there is no privacy when posting to public online areas.

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  • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Researchers scrape thousands of hours of news footage from their TVs!” is about as big a deal, honestly.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In other words-- your sexting is safe, friends.

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  • MoonRaven@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It also includes deleted messages. And they refuse to delete things when someone opts out.

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    • donuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It also includes deleted messages. And they refuse to delete things when someone opts out

      Deleted messages are not included. Neither the public nor the API allows you to read deleted messages

      Upon joining a server, users gain access to all non-deleted historical content within public channels, and the same is valid for data retrieval using their API.

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      • MoonRaven@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Excellent point if searchcord used the api. They created unmarked bot accounts that save all the messages.

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• Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s literally no difference. Each Discord server is like a tiny chunk of Reddit. If anyone expected any privacy on these servers, they’re nuts.

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