Discord, what do you think of it?

Luminous47

Luminous47

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For those who don't know, Discord is an app/website that allows you to communicate with other people in a chat style format in little groups called "servers". As a user, I have a love/hate relationship, personally I find it more convenient to message people in smaller servers or private conversations with- however in large servers, it's hard to keep up with or join conversations.

If you use Discord, what do you think of it?
 
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Used to be cool. Now refuses to fucking innovate. Not a single interesting or relevant feature in years. Alternatives like Guilded have far, far surpassed it in terms of features and options. It persists solely because of market dominance and I can't wait till it dies.
 
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Forever Sunrise said:
Explain? Curious about this.
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Not my words:
This is a real thing, there are a a lot of malware examples using discord as a command and control server.
Idea is that you create an account, which discord lets you do with minimal verification, create a server, create a bot, invite the bot to the server.
Then the malware they send include the api key for the discord bot, and whenever something is written to a channel discord bot executes that command on the machine, and writes is response to the discord channel.
This is a used technique because it makes the forensic process a mess because remote connection is to the discord server, and anyone can use discord anonymously.
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AngelProtocol_33_ said:
A group of hypocrites, pedo enablers and virtue signalers. Not to mention it's basically a botnet.
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Seconded.
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I think they're using it as a /g/entooman would that is synonymous with "spyware."

Just keep in mind, Discord presumably logs everything you've ever said on there and everyone you've ever associated with and it is surprisingly trivial to build network maps and conduct accurate analytics if it's stored properly. Even more, that data is worth money and while I haven't checked the Discord ToS in awhile I wouldn't be surprised if it finds its way to other parties, raw or analyzed.
Use literally anything else, even if it's faux privacy like general Telegram use is. At least Telegram would basically kill itself if it was found to analyze all the chat logs and make money off of that data.

Further, if you use the client, it monitors your processes. You think it just magically restricts itself to the exact game you're playing at that moment?

The spying and degeneracy of communities aside, I never understood the appeal of large servers with hundreds of people where the chat is very difficult to keep up with and the more active ones are always the spergs of the community.

Edit:AngelProtocol expanded on the "botnet" term, I never considered that but it's not surprising. Any such client could be used that way though so I can't fault discord for it too much.

ps I use Element instead of Discord for personal use and Signal for normie friends
 
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Just a heads up that discord does fuckwhatever with all of your private messages. Try as I might I can no longer find their announcement from April of last year where they declared they would be handing off private messages to third parties like the ADL to "study how hate spreads". If somebody wants to scroll back that far, I'm sure it's still there.
 
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Luminous47 said:
Really? Honestly I prefered on IOS moreso than desktop, i'm curious to why you think that?
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I’ve had lots of issues with it persisting settings, dropped screenshares, etc. The last update they did made things a lot worse for me.
 
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I’ve had lots of issues with it persisting settings, dropped screenshares, etc. The last update they did made things a lot worse for me.
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That's understandable. Oddly enough my only issue was when logging out or logging back in, it would freeze for a few seconds- but all the apps on my IOS devices do that. The desktop version would be better if there was an easier way to scroll down through servers though- it's my only issue on that part.
 
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Further, if you use the client, it monitors your processes. You think it just magically restricts itself to the exact game you're playing at that moment?
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Its a process logger that saves that data and it literally uses that as feature to the users, just with a cutesy name ahahaha
 
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