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?

  • deathbird@mander.xyz
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    1 month ago

    Far more than should tbh. Too many little game mods will have a Discord for questions and reporting issues rather than using their GitHub or a forum.

    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Oh I agree, it’s very much a “forcing a round peg into a square hole” situation, but I doubt discord will make any changes to push back against it

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          1 month ago

          Because now you’re using discord for more things? You’re giving them more data? What’s not to like

          • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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            1 month ago

            Doubt that they are scrapping the data themselves at this point in time. They care more about the user count as their major revenue seems focused on selling nitro and whatever shit they are putting up in their shop. Not in anyway saying that it is secure obviously and they might choose to sell data like reddit but gotta sick with the more plausible scenarios.

            • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              Well who knows, they do offer AI summaries now so they’re at least using the data for something,who says they won’t use it for other things in the future