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Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago (9 children)

So the basics of what I've read is:

Discord stores all messages and media. If you delete it, or delete your account, its still there.
Discord does not SELL that data. Instead, they hand it over to the ad companies that are the shareholders of Discord.
Discord has lots of security flaws that are abused by third parties all the damn time.

I know its different now because Discord has nitro and there are lots if good reasons to subscribe. But Discord ran without all if that subscriber funding and in that time they probably found ways to make money off of what resources they had at the time... Information.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Discord stores all messages and media.

I mean, how else do you think they can make it so all your existing chats show up when you log into your account from a different device? Signal stores all your messages and media as well, the difference is they encrypt it on their servers. Discord doesn't.

If you delete it, or delete your account, its still there.

That's more problematic, and there should honestly be a law against that. Come to think of it, doesn't that violate the GRDP? Either they have to treat their EU customers differently when it comes to this, or there's a lawsuit waiting to happen. In the former case, you might be able to force them to delete your data by using a VPN to pretend you're in Europe.

[–] tcely@fosstodon.org 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

> Signal stores all your messages and media as well, the difference is they encrypt it on their servers.

What evidence do you have to support this claim?

The last time I looked into this, messages and media were only stored encrypted on servers until they were retrieved or expired.