The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
Excited to see Discord do absolutely nothing about this despite it being an egregious breach of their TOS.
Discord‘s TOS only really applies when they feel like it.
Can’t wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.
Is matrix.org a viable alternative as of now or the near future?
If it has the same issues Lemmy does, probably not. People don’t want to build an account on a server only to find out, three months later, it’s run by tankies, or anti-piracy watchdogs, or any other number of unsavory things.
From the article, the data collection hinges on a bot going into a public server then scraping the history. Still a problem that Discord should act on, but it looks like there is no need to worry about private servers.
“private” = small ‘servers’ that aren’t in the public index (I think you have to have like 500 people to be eligible or something), or…?
