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There’s also a privacy aspect here. Upload to discord and the image URL can easily be copied around and shared outside of the server and the intended audience. This is at least a crude way to stop that and I think it’s a good thing.
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As an ex heavy IRC user, I couldn’t possibly disagree more with this. Not even for the same “free! libre!” reasons as the other replier. It is just at its core still a gamer chat platform heavily misappropriated for other purposes, with a UX that will spare no opportunity to make you aware of that.
I also feel people treated irc much more ephemeral, important things were in a forum post or a bot. Discord is just treated as the sum repository of all for way too many people.
The barrier of entry of asking and answering questions on a Discord is very low. Setting up a forum, that's needs a bit of effort, not to mention hosting, and on-going headache of spam and liability.
I mean, I'm really interested in Audio Description, but there is no forum for discussing the nuts and bolts, issues, research, advocacy etc. Conversely there are AD groups on Twitter, Facebook, Linkd In, Discord and a few more besides.
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I remember some popular sites would detect and swap out hotlinked images for, let's say, less-than-savoury images instead.
Not quite the same, still funny: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
People are using Discord as a file hosting service a la Imgur? Yikes. Hard to blame Discord for cracking down on that, considering it's not a service they intentionally offer.
Yes, For a little while even it became a meme to compress all of shrek down to less then 8MiB using AV1 as that was the largest file you could host on discord without premium. It's not 'great' but considering many websites load more javascript then this entire 1.5 hour movie, It's impressive in it's own right. https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/hb039t/8mib_shrek_is_b...
How many major social media sites try to prevent this behavior? Facebook links expire[1]; but Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter all generate seemingly permanent image links. Also semi-related fun fact, I think most sites lack authorization checks when accessing images via direct urls. A logged out user can follow direct image links from private accounts/servers/subs on all these sites, including Discord. Not like that mean…
As of a few months ago, Reddit no longer allows linking directly linking to their hosted images. You are directed to a pseudo-page that links back to original thread it was posted in. This sucks because it's now not possible to use the browser's built-in image viewer which has better UX. I am expecting them to eventually put ads on the page as well. Random example: https://i.redd.it/144knacbw3rb1.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/14ks1tm/reddi...
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Aside from the people that abuse the service to host files (using free accounts or using accounts with sniped nitro) there are a lot of bots that do image/gif generation that upload directly as attachments. You could see people using multiple commands, while generating multiple gifs, until they get one they want to save. Theres also servers like Midjourney. I imagine a lot of what Discord stores is dead files that wi…
They're not even temporarily on Discord. They're straight from Tenor.
One has to think the ungodly amount of images being shared from midjourney has something to do with this?
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This is a very contentious topic but looking into the relatively recent Freenode vs Librem.chat debacle I think signifies how important privacy is to the common IRC user.
I don't remember privacy being a significant part of the discussion about the Freenode takeover and the subsequent founding of Libera.chat. My memory is that the hostile takeover was a big problem for some, and the majority of the exodus happened when Andrew went crazy and started hijacking channels and banning people en masse.
> I believe that his intentions are malicious, and that he should under no circumstances gain control over the network, nor access to its user data.
Just from the first "explainer" I remember (https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...)
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As an ex heavy IRC user, I couldn’t possibly disagree more with this. Not even for the same “free! libre!” reasons as the other replier. It is just at its core still a gamer chat platform heavily misappropriated for other purposes, with a UX that will spare no opportunity to make you aware of that.
How do you reckon? For contrast I've gotten a lot of use out of it for connecting with various topic focused communities and I've seen people do neat things with it. The python server manages to offer an awful lot of surprisingly high quality tutoring, all things considered, and a big part of it is through the automation they've built in via bots. Oh! And I found a server focused on electronics when I was looking for…
> The python server manages to offer an awful lot of surprisingly high quality tutoring, all things considered, and a big part of it is through the automation they've built in via bots
So did/does IRC.
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It's basically a free S3-type storage, easy to use with little to no limits or controls (even a deleted upload used to stay valid for weeks). I'm surprised this went on that long even if size limit stop piracy it could still easily used on a large scale for suspicious pictures hosting.
Being able to upload unlimited 50MB (with nitro) files with infinite retention is kinda wild in and of itself. There’s a reason every email provider has storage quotas.