Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now

plyth@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Discord’s complete lack of indexing. Although it’s definitely not impossible to scrape data from Discord it would take more resources than say reddit.

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If an AI company pays Discord they won’t scrape but get the data directly.

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  • RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But they Index everything. Just request your data and you’ll get a neat package of all your messages with timestamps and all.

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    • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They store your data, they don’t correlate your data.

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      • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So what? You can still sell it to AI companies without assigning an user to each message. They don’t care about who wrote it when stealing the content.

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