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Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time Discord has been active.

Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data, it’s hard to imagine anyone is comfortable with almost a decade of their Discord messages sitting in a public JSON file online. Separately, a different programmer released a Discord tool called "Searchcord" based on a different data set that shows non-anonymized chat histories.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I spent nearly three hours today between discord and matrix trying to figure out how to get these two pieces of software to talk using a certain protocol.

Imagine if there were online indexable platforms where people could publish this information so it’s easily accessible rather than having to scour through message logs hoping to find the right keywords. Such a technology surely doesn’t exist already, right?

I hate discord.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't hate Discord, I simply hate that so many projects and companies have unanimously decided to use it as the wrong tool for the wrong job.

It's fine for its intended use case, which is bickering with my friends about video games and fiction, and spamming each other with .gifs and meme images.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Discord is genuinely a great tool for what I used to use Skype for. Talking to my friends, and sharing dumb memes with them in a groupchat format. Companies need to learn that using it as a forum, a Q&A service, a wiki or any other information sharing purpose, is simply fucking removed.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We can't say the F-word on Lemmy?

That's removed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Hey now you can't say the R word that no longer dsm-5 compliant

[–] MDCCCLV 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, but then you have something like when people protest deleted their history on reddit which is fine as a protest tactic but leaves a hole where your specific question came up but now there's nothing there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

you get it to work? i didnt have time to get it working in both directions. matrix to discord worked fine but not the other way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here. I do not use any bridge between the two, but rather searched in separate communities for my answer. Would've been lovely if I could just use a search engine to search indexed forums or so, but since for some reason chat clients have taken the place of forums that's just not doable.

I'd like to move away from Discord but sadly a bunch of friends still use it. I haven't read up enough about the bridge thing to figure out if it actually serves a purpose I'd be interested in or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

You mean NNTP ?