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Friendly reminder that when you delete your discord account, they don't delete your statements, just strip the account name from them, similar to how Github is doing it with their ghost account. For Github, I sort of understand it. For discord, it feels very dangerous to me.

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You can write/use script that deletes all your messages

I haven't used this myself, but maybe this?

https://gist.github.com/victornpb/135f5b346dea4decfc8f63ad7d...

No IM platform I am aware of does this. SMS doesn't do it, telegram doesn't do it, email doesn't do it.

Most platforms do not even let you edit or delete messages at all.

In Telegram you absolutely can delete messages from the UI at least and I've seen nothing to suggest anyone knows a way to get them back as if it was known someone surely had posted it here ;-)

Just log press, delete and select "Delete for me and <other(s)>".

In Telegram, as an admin you can also select auto delete for a group.

You can also delete messages in Discord and much more.

I don't know and I don't have anything bad (or good) to say about Discord, I just wanted to point out that it was possible in Telegram.

For SMS, the logs are stored on the devices, not with the providers. So providers have to take an extra effort to listen in. With Discord, it's already in a database. E-Mail does keep logs around but many clients have features to delete mails older than N weeks/months/etc. In discord or telegram, you need to use third party tools for that.

GitHub also allows you to self-bot.

Discord will ban you for that, even if you delete your messages with the app on a stock Android without any macros or other tools that reduce the required effort over the naive way (e.g. `from: namibj` search; repeat for each "server").

(Btw; you have a pending email. I lost my old domain, but keybase has other accounts and an encryption key linked. You have 24h before I'll have to reach out harder, due to acute urgency.)

I like that. If someone's sent me a message in the past, they shouldnt be able to retroactively reach into my computer and remove it.

There is you not wanting to delete information from a public web service when they ask and there is people dying because you wouldn't delete information from a public web service.

Strange that you're worried about someone "reaching into your computer" but seem to have no problem using Discord, whose disrespect for personal privacy is legendary.

It's not your computer. The cloud, and discord is a cloud service, is always someone else's computer. If you want it be stored locally on your computer, use the discord data export feature or some other feature like it.

Also, Discord might be a "nice" company right now, but maybe it gets bought by facebook in 5 years.

Isn’t this also how Reddit does it? Seems to be a popular strategy for social media services.

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