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Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online (www.404media.co)

submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 7 points 17 hours ago

Public data should be accessible anonymously. You can't change my mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

This is just trolling, at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Every time you post, you're posting so that Meta, Google, Reddit and every known retail store like Walmart, Target, Kroger, etc. can see it because they bought that info or harvested it themselves. I think these are great announcements so people can see who sees and manipulates you with your own contributions of data.