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Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?

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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 13 points 3 hours ago

Discord still sells your information for advertising so it's meaningless posturing.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

Not meaningless but certainly undercuts the grandstanding.

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Yes, the authorities will have to pay for data like everyone else.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

And that's job creation right there!

Thanks to Discord, I'm able to keep merchants that "connect overbearing authoritarian entities with the data they shouldn't have, at a price point we all can agree on" at stable, sub-full time employment status.

Truly, pillar of the economy, er community.

[-] swankypantsu@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I know the feeling. Similar thing happened in a discord I'm in. Rate limit ban on a leader account, no response from support even via burner, then jumped ship to a new one that could actually be managed.

At least discord has to foot the storage costs of a dead server pestered with bots because of their own incompetence.

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

I had a server with a respectable size.
Did a hard cutoff due to some stupid discord thing.
I managed to get a total of 50 people of about 3k to switch and out of those like 7 actually stayed.

Yet I had to get a burner account again to get in touch with certain people.

Its all be man.

[-] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago
[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

for the 7 that actually stuck, it was matrix for a while

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Sad am forced on this app, I love matrix more.

[-] ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 194 points 23 hours ago

If they did not collect any information, they would not have any information to give when they are served a subpoena.

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