Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all on sale
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Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.

The website presents the data it’s collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Good :-) Finally people can index search and read back answers to questions for all the open source projects that only used Discord for communication (Like SerenityOS and many others).

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I really don’t like seeing people gloating about harm just because it doesn’t affect them negatively, or treating it as justified because the victims were too stupid to know better.

      And this “good” is not correct because the data isn’t for you, even if it was from those projects.

      • spookex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I just support the fundamental rule that was taught to me in one of those internet safety PSAs back in the day: The internet never forgets and whatever you posted is going to stay out there forever, good or bad.

          • SuckMyWang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            I’m not sure what the difference with discord and Lemmy is. I would assume this is all being scraped as well.

            • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Discord communities are inherently gated, Lemmy ones intentionally have everything publicly exposed. A better comparison would be between Discord and Matrix rooms, where privacy expectations could potentially vary tremendously.

    • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Yeah my thoughts exactly, I don’t see what the problem is here… Are people under the assumption discord is somehow private? What do they think discord themselves are doing with all that data?

      • Lemongrab@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Two assumptions are made by a typical user: discord is somewhat trustworthy, the data is only controlled by discord. These are both incorrect but it is understandable why they make such an assumption about a large platform like discord. Without the knowledge of how things are scrapped, one might not think it is even possible.