2026-10-27 18:41 UTC
Replies (7)
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@Zagorath@quokk.au 2026-10-28 00:03
Wow this is actually great. Still doesn’t excuse groups using Discord instead of traditional forums, because traditional forums are still browsable without an account. But the lack of indexing has been such a huge flaw with public groups using Discord. Addressing that issue goes a long way to making Discord a less shit platform for open source apps, games, etc. to run their support from.
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@eleijeep@piefed.social 2026-10-27 19:24
You can bet they’re selling it to AI companies for training, too.
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@AppleMango@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 06:56
Now lemmy servers need to do the same. Maybe some do, but they never show up in search queries whenever I tried.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-10-28 07:13
google couldnt rely on reddit to scrape AI data, because its been taken over by said AI slop. google needed a new source of datamining.
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@tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-28 13:10
So, they just gonna use the discord messages as fuel for train AI…
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@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2026-10-28 05:56
To be clear, this is really good - so much information has moved from being accessible on the open internet in the form of public forums, to being inaccessible in the form of public discord servers. This brings back that lost information.
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@bss03@infosec.pub 2026-10-29 05:17
If there’s no choice in this, it is bad. If “servers” are allowed to opt-in, and users are interrupted with a warning before posting on a “server” that has changed the setting, it’s possibly good. I know Discord messages have never been secure, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a place people treated as private. Suddenly making messages accessible is like replacing all the bathroom stall dividers with transparent partitions: never was secure from a real threat, but there was a heightened expectation of privacy. There are a lot of fandoms and communities and support groups with the intent to be public and having those indexed by your favorite search index will bring value, just like public web fora of the past and reddit (even ex-Twitter) before extreme monetization and slopification. But, changing any shared information or thoughts from inaccessible to accessible is virtually guaranteed to cause harm via unwanted disclosure and those harm would be irreparable and impossible to balance with the benefits of accessibility. This news is mixed, with a side of anxiety. I’m not really sure what’s going to show up in my Discord history.