Comment on Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months agoStill, it’s not a file hosting platform. 🤷♂️ it should have been temporary to begin with.
They wouldnt have been as popular if they had been temporary from the beginning.
Shoulda woulda coulda, this is now a thing their community has come to expect and rely on their platform being capable of. And the change of such will break a number of channels.
Eh if they don’t want people using their service that way, that’s their right. People who care about it that much should host a matrix instance.
This is typical enshittification. Make animpossibly good service to gain marketshare. Then, make it worse once you’ve eliminated all competition and dominate the market.
You make it sound like the initial investments were sustainable
Reminder that file uploads on discord more than a few mb is a paid feature.
Did anything about my comment imply I thought this change was illegal? This has nothing to do with their rights
I didn’t intend to imply that, my statement can be rephrased as “if users don’t like this change, they should use an alternative, because discord is going to do what makes sense to discord.” File hosting is ubiquitous and cheap, so it isn’t a big deal. I don’t work at discord, but I do work at a company that has file hosting as one of its features, and combating malicious misuse of that feature is expensive and a pain in the ass. If I could get away with not offering file hosting, I’d be tempted to remove it.
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It literally is, it’s part of their paid plans.
worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 7 months ago
It literally isn’t, what the hell are you smoking?
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
you think a service you pay for that lets you upload files to them, to share the files with an unlimited amount of other people, is not a file hosting platform? even though it hosts files for you? and you pay for the service?
what do you think it is?
worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 7 months ago
Don’t move the goal posts. It’s 100% not an advertised feature to use Discord uploads as cloud storage or an off-platform CDN.
The unintended side effect that you’ve so clearly described is the exact reason they’re implementing the protections in question.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It shouldn’t have been. That’s their bad—misuse of file hosting is an obvious result of offering file hosting. Manage your own files. Put them on GitHub or something. And if they’re private they shouldn’t be on any cloud to begin with 🤷♂️
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months ago
… But it is, and they offer for people to pay them in order to function as such.
“Kroger shouldnt sell groceries. 🤷♀️ Grow your own celery, if you intended to eat it and not sell it you shouldnt have bought it from a store to begin with.”
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That comparison is poor. Kroger is a store for groceries. If DropBox started saying files were temporary, I’d think that was ridiculous. Discord should have always required a third party storage solution for longer term storage. They’re a chat app. Like zoom. And zoom provides integration with cloud file services.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You’re beim disingenuous, discord very clearly wasn’t selling file hosting and was simply offering file transfer
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What ? Pretty sure their paid plans only allow uploading larger files. It says nothing about the longevity of said files on their servers