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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 8 months ago by starman to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Discord can and sometimes does monitor your chats.

Source: CEO himself said that, in a hearing

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Also a large portion is owned by Tencent with whom Discord is allowed to share all the data they want according to their ToS.

https://github.com/privy-cafe/discordspyware/blob/master/README.md

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Discord can

Well that's pretty obvious.

and sometimes does monitor your chats.

Probably, although why would they? More likely they'll just data mine everything an sell it on for AI learning program to nom nom on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

why would they?

People use it for things like planning terrorism, child enticement, and sharing CSAM. Discord probably wants to ban those people, and maybe aid in their prosecution.

Of course if you're sharing something that's actually private, Discord is a poor choice. So is email or DMs on Lemmy where the server admin could read the content.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Good to know, I guess?