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Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by slowdog »

bottiger1 wrote: post #148
philipwhiuk wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The list of ASNs is public info. The ASN currently used by a group of people is not. It's location info for those people. > You are required by internet registry rules to be listed in a public database for everyone to see. No. The list of all ASNs are. I think you need to take "information connected to people" more seriously and if this is the way it has to happen, that's not the worst outcome for you.

I'm sorry but you seem to be on the extreme end of the privacy spectrum that few people agree with. If everyone agreed with you, this post would have been deleted off hacker news as well. If you follow the logic of "information connected to people" however indirect, nobody would be allowed to post any visitor statistics and that is clearly absurd.

I think most folks would disagree that the other commenter is on the "extreme" end of the privacy spectrum. It's very context specific. Some ISPs are state specific or even town specific.

I agree with my sibling comments, your evasiveness isn't helping us make up our own opinions on this matter.

Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by IshKebab »

grayhatter wrote: post #153
IshKebab wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely you can see the issue with having some features just not work for some people? Reactions is the most obvious one. They aren't just for fun - people use them for polls for example.

[username] reacted to message [username]: [message] > Surely you can see the issue with having some features just not work for some people? No, I honestly don't. If I'm using IRC, even after slack warns me about missing and unsupported features. That's likely what I want ! What if I don't want to see reactions when I'm trying get work done, but I am willing to be interrupted to answer questions, etc? Also, that examp…

> [username] reacted to message [username]: [message]

Apple does this for iMessage and as far as I can tell (I don't live in the US) it's widely hated and believed to be deliberately annoying to Android users.

Do you really want 20 or those notifications for popular messages? Are you going to count them up for polls?

Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by Aerbil313 »

nkootstra wrote: post #160
Aerbil313 wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate how hackers and FOSS devs always try to make their “own” project. If there were a FOSS discord clone identical to discord, thousands would self-host it overnight.

Like this? https://revolt.chat

Oh thanks! I recently need something like this but couldn’t find anything.

Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by muzani »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #126
VoodooJuJu wrote: post #63

So discord is something I use for voice-chatting and shitposting with friends, typically while also playing video games. Can anyone tell me why they would ever use it for anything remotely serious? Can you tell me why you'd want to stake your livelihood on a walled garden designed for video game voice chat and sharing rickroll videos? Not only that, I can't take seriously a business that uses discord. Like, what are…

Midjourney is a great example: Discord offers a customer base of potentially hundreds of millions of individual people using it to generate and send images to one another. You seem very dismissive of it, but what about businesses running on other chat platforms like Whatsapp, WeChat, QQ, etc? Sure, it CAN be fulfilled by anything else, but is that where your customers are?

Yeah, I wish some platforms would just die, and that includes Discord and WhatsApp. It's where the customers are for a reason. There's this naive mindset that says, "If you don't like it, don't use it," but this does not apply to communication channels. I'd rather everyone just go back to IRC, but we won't have that because of Discord.

Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by fennecfoxy »

Lmao, Discord is for gaming. It's essentially the "now" version of Mumble and Teamspeak. Why anyone would use it instead of something business orientated like Slack or Microsoft Teams is a bit odd. I could understand for a start-up/small project, but people should migrate to something professional once they start making some cash.

I suppose it's almost like app developers basing their entire businesses on the whims and unfair practices of App stores...

Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by michaelcampbell »

spajus wrote: post #129

My discord server was flagged as "offensive" and removed from public listings without giving a clear reason why. It took me weeks to accidentally discover the cause, which was the name of a channel: #bugs-minor. Renaming it to #bugs removed the flagged status.

Sweet mercy.

Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by spurgu »

morkalork wrote: post #113
cudgy wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn’t AWS pull the rug out from under a fledgling, but increasingly popular, social media site that never recovered from their actions “after the platform was deemed to be both "unwilling and unable" to address extremist speech”? https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-web-services-parler-lawsuit-...

>a fledgling, but increasingly popular, social media site Aww, so innocent sounding. AWS was such a big bully in terminating their relationship with that client. It's not like anybody died as a result of that extremist speech they were popularising, right?

You sound like one of those people who think governments should ban encryption because pedophiles use it.

Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by reciprocity »

I think it's a bunch of bullshit that Discord employees also control the Discord subreddit. This wasn't always the case until the previous moderators thought it was a good idea for some reason to have employees moderate the subreddit [0]. Your case is yet another example of why that was a bad decision. Employees get to filter out anything at their discretion.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/9pbpc4/people_w...

Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

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Post by account42 »

telios wrote: post #106
CapstanRoller wrote: post #81

>They threatened to delete my server I really hate how Discord intentionally co-opted the word "server" in order to imply that one can somehow own or control a Discord account. Discord Inc owns and controls all the servers. There's no such thing as " your Discord server", there are only accounts on Discord's SaaS platform, which they can restrict/censor/ban/nuke at any time for any reason. It is not possible for indi…

For reference, the terminology they use for their API is "guilds." But since most other services in the space used the term "servers" (e.g. TeamSpeak and Mumble, where they were actual distinct servers), I can see why the UI doesn't say guilds.

Yes, I too can see why a dishonest corporation would knowingly use incorrect labels to mislead you about how their product compares to the competition. That doesn't excuse that behavior though, quite the opposite.
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