They will still have all your messages, even the deleted ones.
>> They will still have all your messages <<
this is why anything important to keep secret should be said in unclear terms so only those in on it will understand
> this is why anything important to keep secret should be said in unclear terms so only those in on it will understand
Obscurity does very little if it actually matters (that is, you have an active adversary). Just like you shouldn't try to use innuendo and hinting to get at secret things when sitting in a public space, you shouldn't use it in text communications online. Even more so because those text communications can be held and reexamined later with new understanding.
> but they will have one less user, perhaps even a mass exodus if they decide to sell out.
The only way (and this isn't even guaranteed) for services like Discord to remain independent is if they're bringing in money from users or by selling access to users. How many users are paying regularly for access to parts of the service? How many would pay if they charged $5/year for basic access? An independent company can't afford (long term) to operate a free service of this scale without some form of selling out (advertisements/access to users) or selling services.
social ettiquette does this, yes its nice to be among other people not behaving like savages, but its often hinting such as "excuse me theres only 3 of those left, and theres 3 of us in line"
the idea of crypto in some form isnt to keep it secret forever, just to keep it secret for long enough that the info is not germaine to adversarial action, so out of date that it cant be used expediently. That means dont assume your cipher is unbreakable, and dont TX things that stay hot for a long time, such as crimes.
lewd groups were mentioned elsewhere and that has a big issue of facilitation of obvious crime and where to drop the line between consenting adults, and abuse.
it would also be nice to see a simple peer to peer chat server solution, something that looks and feels like ~messangerperhaps but runs more like an IRC. peer server chaining would be a good feature.
[addndm] if each instance was capable of maintaining 2 peers then that would be a relay, or 3 peers then each one could function to route packets among peers
I haven't checked whether they're complying or not, but as an European citizen it is my legal right to download all my personal data hosted by them, and to have them migrate it for me to one of their competitors.