Also this is a terrible decision IMO.
The discriminator allows people to have their own name of choice.
If people aren’t accepting friend requests have they ever thought that maybe.. nor everyone responds to friend requests?
I just checked my discord and I’ve got 82 friend requests. I don’t add anyone except people I actually want to.
Three months from now: Discord raises 500 million dollars to make the next generation social media company.
Not my definition of private.
> I don’t want discord checking what I’m saying in my own server with my own friends.
Then use E2E encryption.
Great idea, except for the part that modifying the client is a bannable offense itself, and you can get banned as a spammer for using it too often. Nevertheless, it's possible: https://github.com/leogx9r/DiscordCrypt // https://github.com/An00nymushun/End-to-end-Discord-Encryptio...
I wouldn’t expect, nor want discord to know if my material is nsfw or not. If they imposed any restriction it would make me less likely to use them.
I noticed through using bark, an app used to monitor and protect kids device usage, that discord doesn’t provide any api user access to content and the only way to see material is through their app.
Discord "servers" are just instances of Discord on Discord Inc's cloud. Discord never claims that they are private in the sense of 'sovereign', only that you can moderate them yourself.
Discord openly states in the TOS that their "Trust and Safety" team can see literally everything you do (channel messages, DMs, attachments, etc) at any time.
That's why the only solution is fully E2EE platforms for anything you have an expectation of privacy towards.
>investigation is centered around the reported messages, but can expand if the evidence shows that there’s a bigger violation.
>we may investigate whether the entire server is dedicated to bad behavior, or if the behavior appears to be part of a wider pattern.
>we know there is also violating content on Discord that might go unreported. This is where we get proactive.
>When we have data suggesting that a user is engaging in illegal activity or violating our policies, we investigate their networks, activity on Discord, and their messages to proactively detect accomplices and determine whether violations have occurred.
https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=SwiftIRC 1/2 to 1/3rd of its prime is diminished, sure, but far from dead. Today is what dead looks like.
A few thousand users might not seem like much compared to Discord's current userbase, but mass migrations like that were a pretty good shot in the arm for it right out of the gate.
IRC was a hub for gamers (among others) since well before Skype, Steam, and Reddit were conceived. Teamspeak itself never really had "communities", it was really just "the thing you log into to voice chat during the match" and was almost always a strict subset of the community that paid for the server.
Regarding teamspeak, you're wrong. That may have been your limited experience but I saw many actual communities which existed on teamspeak. People used it in many different ways (and still do).
They do this probably because the SaaS reality seems repressive (i.e. they don't want to be seen as another Facebook), uncool with a younger audience, antithetical to 'gamer culture' which evolved out of self-hosted servers, and maybe gives a specific hint around pricing (just guessing, not a marketing expert).
But all that money goes to pay off their VC debt, not to the person that created the community. So that's fun.
Everything is recorded and stored forever. One is beholden to the French authorities, the other serves the US.
I say, build your own chat system. It's not that hard.
Also matrix is e2e encrypted.
Look at data collected section, they basically collect everything, nothing is deleted.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/discord...
As for the link, are you talking about the "app" or the web version? Of course the "app" is collecting anything that it can. Don't install it.
Use Mumble for that.
(I'm somewhat upset the UK has done this, with actual charges for hate speech communication on private whatsapp groups)
Indeed I always considered this a major bonus point for discord. Sigh.