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Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online (www.404media.co)
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Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time Discord has been active.

Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data, it’s hard to imagine anyone is comfortable with almost a decade of their Discord messages sitting in a public JSON file online. Separately, a different programmer released a Discord tool called "Searchcord" based on a different data set that shows non-anonymized chat histories.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 44 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That’s good news. Internet archiving is an important endeavor because you never know when they‘ll pull the plug. Now it‘s a little more secured and probably far more useful than in Discord‘s hands alone.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Not for messages that are supposed to be private lol. Let me just make a copy of all texts you've sent over the last decade, for "archiving".

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Texts are sent in plain-text and I wouldn't recommend discussing anything you'd like to keep private via text.

[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

If you think messages you post anywhere on the internet are private, you're in for a bad time.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 hours ago

This says it was done via the API so they wouldn't be private messages.