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You are here on lemmy on a linux sub trying to defend a proprietary company who makes billions stealing kids data. Take a break and think about what you are doing with your life.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html
There are plenty of legit things to get upset about. Malicious bots, prolific scams, CSAM, customer support having an abysmal rep, and that's not even talking about how foundationally incompatible Discord is with FOSS.
So no, I'm not here to defend a proprietary company. I'm here to address the pointless fear mongering that distracts from the real issues.
Did you actually read anything or are you just set to rage mode?
And then your blogger proceeds to use it as a cited source, my goodness.
Yes, did you? They are trying to claim something as stupid as that discord doesn't sell your data.
Burden of proof is on you, to show an instance of Discord going against its ToS and selling data.
Only thing I could find: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/billions-of-public-discord-messages-may-be-sold-through-a-scraping-service/#comments where are 3rd party bot might scrape data to then sell... which is an issue even for lemmy?
ask Jason Citron
So you've got nothing but hysterics 😂