Discord bans me for using their official client
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Discord bans me for using their official client
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Re: Discord bans me for using their official client
#2Time to check out Mastodon, Pleroma, and other distributed social networks.
Walled gardens with chilling suppression begone!
Re: Discord bans me for using their official client
#3You mention GDPR. You do have a right to your data as per EU rules. Feel free to talk with your state data protection authority.
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#4The author seems to have used the auth from the official client for some application. Discord indiscriminately bans due to API abuse.
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Re: Discord bans me for using their official client
#6Time to check out Mastodon, Pleroma, and other distributed social networks. Walled gardens with chilling suppression begone!
Mastodon can de-platform you just as easily as Discord if they don't like what you say.
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#7It's probably not related to what you were doing when it happened (closing DMs). It's just that their ML batch job happened to run then, and aggregating your previous behaviours and network access patterns across the whole app and maybe other things it 'observed' about your use of your computer after you gave its client unmitigated access to everything on your PC (I digress), it decided based on some opaque trained model that you were a spambot.
Re: Discord bans me for using their official client
#8The author seems to have used the auth from the official client for some application. Discord indiscriminately bans due to API abuse.
How did you come to that conclusion from the OP? I've read and re-read it. That's a good guess, but nothing indicates the scenario you mentioned.
Re: Discord bans me for using their official client
#9The author seems to have used the auth from the official client for some application. Discord indiscriminately bans due to API abuse.
What? The author used the QR scan feature from the official Discord mobile app to try to log in on the desktop client.
Re: Discord bans me for using their official client
#10You mention GDPR. You do have a right to your data as per EU rules. Feel free to talk with your state data protection authority.
You also have a right to have access to the data they used to make the decision to ban you, and an explanation of it in a way a reasonable person could understand.
Articles 13–15 provide rights to 'meaningful information about the logic involved' in automated decisions.