The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
Excited to see Discord do absolutely nothing about this despite it being an egregious breach of their TOS.
Discord‘s TOS only really applies when they feel like it.
When someone uses 3rd party client or creates a server for Nintendo emulator
Just like twitch
…and when they don’t pay Discord under the table. Discord wouldn’t be unique if this was the case either.
I think they’ll give it a genuine shot. These stalking services pop up like weeds and every time it gets some media attention they end up with significant problems not much later.
dis.coolwas the last well-known entry but there’s been more.Can’t wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.
Is matrix.org a viable alternative as of now or the near future?
personally I think revolt is a better alternative.
If it has the same issues Lemmy does, probably not. People don’t want to build an account on a server only to find out, three months later, it’s run by tankies, or anti-piracy watchdogs, or any other number of unsavory things.
Matrix is great, if only I could convince my friends to use it.
I am still on it because of a small circle of friends.
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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.
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.
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.
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!!!
Edit: Italicized “hosts”. Wish we could use the <em> tag.
You have to pay for it…
Deleted discord recently because of the ads. Glad I did as iv been looking for reason to delete it for a while.
Time to switch to alternative open source ones: Revolt, Matrix, Spacebar…
Revolt looks and functions the most like Discord.
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.
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Another reason not to use Discord.
You should learn about how message federation works on Lemmy
