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That looks amazing, thanks for sharing sag!

No thanks. I would also like to see news that I don’t necessarily like, from sources I might not necessarily agree with.

“Dead Internet Theory is just a theory!”

Google:

hold my beer

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.

You see a couple of orange lines. You think, well that’s okay, it’s up most of the time? This isn’t helpful. Discord needs to be up all of the time if it wants me to take it seriously. I understand that writing code is hard, and I’m aware that I sound demanding here, but I just cannot adopt Discord for communicating if I cannot rely on it to be available when I need it now. If it’s down for half an hour, that’s not a long time in the big picture, but it’s a long time in the moment when I have a message that I need to send right then.

(emphasis mine). Ah yes, another blog by a user that thinks everything revolves around their experience.

I would love to act in good faith, but you’re not making it easy linking this drivel. Because I don’t want to make you feel like I’m fishing for sources, let me expand some points in the original link to talk about:

Discord contains features which allow integration with other spyware platforms

Discord contains the opt-in spyware feature known as “social media integration.” This allows you to sync your persistent user identity on Discord with your persistent user identity on other spyware platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter. In its privacy policy[1], Discord has confirmed that if you opt in to this spyware feature, Discord will obtain an undisclosed amount of access to information obtained about you by the spyware platforms that you choose to sync with.

Ah yes, very scary. Connecting your account with other platforms to show your profile.

Discord uses its process logging for advertising

That the process logging features of Discord are now being recorded on Discord’s servers as a form of telemetry (spyware), and removes speculation about why this feature exists. It is clarified by Discord that this spyware feature is used for advertising to its users.[8] This means that Discord is recording the programs you have open to build a statistical model of what programs you might buy/license in the future.

The “advertising” in question:

We use certain information to personalize our services. This includes features like customizing your experience on our discovery surfaces, highlighting activity on Discord that may interest you, and surfacing Discord features and promotions from us and our partners that may be of interest to you. For example, we may use information about who you interact with to rank a Friend who you interact with often higher in the “Active Now” section of your Friends List.

Discord tries to force some users to give their Telephone numbers

Discord will lock users out of its service and will not allow them to continue using it without giving their phone number or contacting Discord support. This is especially true for TOR users. This kind of feature is designed to extract very personal information out of its users (phone numbers). The criteria for locking out users isn’t known

Usually this is a server (community) - side setting, but Discord also forces it when they think you are a spammer or malicious actor. Pretending it’s to collect phone number is a bit out there. Also, 2FA has been a thing since forever.

Lastly, there’s probably the argument of selling our personal data:

We don’t sell your personal information. Our business is based on subscriptions and paid products, not from selling your personal information to third parties.

We make money from paid subscriptions and the sale of digital (and sometimes physical) goods, not from selling your personal information to third parties.

We do not sell the personal data of our users or share personal data for targeted advertising purposes.

No sale or “share” of personal information: The CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that sell or “share” personal information. We do not sell or share the personal information of our users as defined in the CCPA.

This is a legal document that they will get in trouble for if they were lying. They’ve already been fined hundreds of thousands of euros for GDPR violations but that curiously did not include a fine for “took people’s personal information and then sold them without consent whilst explicitly saying they didn’t do that”

Discord further has no third party advertisements which they can use to “sell” your data by allowing those advertisements to target you.

Which got worse? Feel free to show me an example. I’ll try to investigate and find out its merits.

It must be said that that site also considers browsers like Firefox and Vivaldi to be at a high level of being spyware. I think it’s important to understand that Discord doesn’t do things much differently than other platforms, other than not having any 3rd party ads.

These articles are very old and not super relevant any more. Sources of 2018 and 2019, while a lot has changed over the years.

I’m not here to “defend” Discord and pretend it’s all gravy, but if you want to make a compelling argument, I think it’s a good idea to stick to current, factual information.

I’ve never seen something “go viral” like this on lemmy before.

I think they are just trends that start becoming popular because people are bored. At least, that’s how it can start.

I imagine for every user that’s like “that’s cool!”, there’s another user who’s like “alright time to avoid Lemmy for a while”, so perhaps there is not much to glean from the metrics.

Am interested in any data too though, if it’s there

Is this an ad?

How about reading the article before commenting

Here’s the description by both:

sh.itjust.works:

A bilingual (EN/FR) general-purpose instance located in eastern Canada! Powered by 99% renewable energy! Everyone is welcome eh.

Lemmy.World:

A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use. (…) Lemmy.World is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use

The comments about instances being “good” or “bad” is just plain ol’ tribalism.

Users get attacked for the instances they registered to, even if they were unaware of instance politics when they actually registered. That sucks!

Having fun responding to these advertorials:

Title: “How To Compress A Video Without Losing Quality”

2. Compress video using Zip

Yeah, I always share my videos in a zip file, especially when I’m sharing it with strangers.

3. Change the resolution

I thought without losing quality was the goal here?

Anyway, use HandBrake to compress videos. It’s got a slider for quality so you can finetune the quality and file size to get as close to the file size you want to share it.

I know this is a meme, but if you want to get rid of them:

Click your picture on the top right > Settings > Notifications > Email > turn off “Missed activity emails”

Also unhelpful, since, if you look at my comment history, I was already aware of the Costco butter fiasco and had made a snarky comment about it.

Are you insinuating Google is reading your Lemmy comments and pushing you news recommendations based on those?

Even though I told you don’t ask me why… you’re asking me why. But I’m a good donut so I went back:

They dont have to press BOTH keys to press space, they just didnt have a spacebar key that is the correct size to fit, so they put those 2 random keys on instead until they get a permanent keycap set that all fits.

“Daisy” is claimed to be indistinguishable from a real person, fooling scammers into thinking they’ve found perfect prey thanks to its ability to engage in “human-like” rambling chat, the biz claims.

lmao okay. This will work for maybe a week, and then they will smarten up

Shift is A, Caps Lock is Z, Control & Backspace is spacebar.

Don’t ask me why, I just searched the image and found the reddit thread that this post is riffing from and got my answers

I have edited my comment with information I found and it seems Tesla is selling nowhere near that amount (30-40k)

Damn, seeing all those AI generated images being taken at face value just makes me lose my faith in humanity.

An actual recall that requires a hardware fix / replacement this time, and not a software update.

Am I reading the PDF right in that 1% or 2,431 trucks are affected, meaning they sold ~240k trucks?

Edit: official numbers are more around 30-40k worldwide as far as I can find. Idk how to read it, perhaps they mean 2,431 is the maximum but the expectation is 1%?