The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
Another reason not to use Discord.
You should learn about how message federation works on Lemmy
I don’t have a Discord history, so that’s one problem taken care of.
Just never talk in a public server and it still won’t.
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.
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.
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.
“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…?
You literally just set the server to private, which is invite-only and has slightly less features. Any public/community server is in the public index.
I’ve ran a discord server for 8 years and I have 0 recollection of this setting. Where is it?
Are you running a server which has a “community server” badge on it or using disboard?
Hmm, it seems like the option is actually the reverse: for toggling whether it’s a community server. So to make it private you simply click on the button to disable community features.
You also used to be able to only disable discovery but that was bundled into community features.
Ah, thanks! My server is a community server but isn’t eligible for discovery, so… I guess we are safe?
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Deleted discord recently because of the ads. Glad I did as iv been looking for reason to delete it for a while.
This… this is nothing. Oh no, my messages on public servers are being scraped! Good thing I haven’t said anything in a public server I didn’t fully intend on being there forever.
The Discord haters will feast on anything. Granted, this should still be shutdown as a TOS violation but acting like this is a profound intrusion on privacy? Get ahold of yourselves. This is no different from Tweets being scraped or Facebook wall posts. Don’t add the bot to servers you don’t want it on and it’s a nonissue.
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.
What kind of foolish optimist are you? Search engines are to make profit, not help you find that obscure answer to your urgent question
Search engines would have to function but yeah that would be nice.
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.
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.
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!!!