The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
Excited to see Discord do absolutely nothing about this despite it being an egregious breach of their TOS.
Discord‘s TOS only really applies when they feel like it.
Just like twitch
…and when they don’t pay Discord under the table. Discord wouldn’t be unique if this was the case either.
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the content being scraped is from users, they do not control what bots are added to servers.
It’s much more like the Cambridge Analytics scandal in that users posted content that was shared with friends but not explicitly shared publicly, but those friends then granted a third party access to all of the data.
You have to pay for it…
Deleted discord recently because of the ads. Glad I did as iv been looking for reason to delete it for a while.
Time to switch to alternative open source ones: Revolt, Matrix, Spacebar…
Revolt looks and functions the most like Discord.