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      2 months ago

      It’s a closed system owned by a single company. If you provide data or information there, the company owns the data, other people can’t find the data using search engines and they would need an account to access the data. Imagine the internet is owned by a single company and they could sell, change, censor, delete restrict access to or use the information in means you cannot predict.

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      It’s a closed ecosystem. What else is there to say?Compare Contrast with IRC, Matrix or XMPP.

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        12 months ago

        So, it’s the lack of admin rights? Inability to decide your own sitewide TOS, lack of privacy from Discord admins, possibility of getting shut down, that’s what they meant?

        (I’m not familiar with those other platforms)

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          22 months ago

          None of those details really matter.

          What matters for the point of this argument is the simple fact that Discord is owned by the company Discord Inc.

          That includes all of the servers and everything on them.

          Imagine if ALL OF THE INTERNET was owned by Google …

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              12 months ago

              More than that. They own the content and relationships and can use them in ways you cannot predict. LLMs gobble up human produced content because we entrusted it to corporations. What hit hardest for me was when Facebook published a study where they found they could influence users attitude by prioritizing certain posts in their feeds.

              Imagine it. Corporations owning your relationships and using them to get a profit out of you