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Do we have a Discord server?
| Watching this post
| ^im with this anon
| ^im with this anon, the anon above him, and op
| hui
| I hope not. Discord is a proprietary dis-service which doesn't respect your privacy in the slightest. Don't use.
| Fuck off, Discord shills. Damn, I fucking hate normies and their containment proprietary chatrooms. Why the fuck do you need some datamining botnet to shitpost when you already have this board, dumb normie?
| >>171863
With pleasure. "Proprietary" software are programs, which deny you the right to look at their source code (among other things). Which means you're not in control of your computing and the programs do god knows what. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Then theres the privacy policy, which clearly states that they will share your data with outside companies. https://discordapp.com/privacy
| yes we have a discord server, https://discord.gg/sKZypMP
| You could use Riot.im
| Remember; at the end of the day, all open source organizations with documents claiming to protecy your privacy are at the end of the day, just that. "Claims."
It's up to the end user to protect themself, not rely on the word of a group of strangers who may or may not have your best interests at heart. In this way it's not too different from a proprietary organization's privacy policy, the only difference is that you can look at (most) of the code.
| Also, welcome to the Discord channel.
| >>172232
I believe an organisation is trustworthy when they free all of their software and allow their users to self host the service. I think it's also important to differentiate between OSS and Free companies. Technically the same, but not from a philosophical standpoint. Discord is far away from providing this much freedom to their users. Suffices to say that Discord useds don't care about their privacy, which is a damn shame. I urge everyone to avoid it.
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| >>172247
This is an important distinction.
OSS protects developers. Free software protects users.
| oh fuck I didn't mean to capcode
| and I can't delete posts on /u/ either
| I mean, according to their privacy statement they don't collect anything super important to me. It's not like I post my illegal loli collection, which is totally non-existent by the way, on Discord and share my deepest and darkest desires so I don't really care if my messages are collected.
| if a software can't protect pedos and terrorists from FBI and CIA, it wont protect you either. Simple as that.
| Isn't the discord for patreons only?
| Is it open to all? I just assumed they didn't want more people in because they took down the Discord pinned thread that use to be on /u/
| >>171912 some people in this server actually said they don't even know what dangeru is
>>172986 I'm in two servers full of loli hentai but nothing has happened in the last two months even when Discord "doesn't allow it" lol
| >>171863 With decentralized Libré Software people can start their own servers on their own hardware without the a central authority having a say in it. Everyone can customize their servers/clients and keep them free from malware/trackers. Licenses like the GPL aim to protect user rights.
Discord snoops around on your computer and sells your data to ad networks. They can put anti-features in the clients without users having a say. They can also ban people from the whole platform.
| >>174396
Discord does watch them, but does not send them. It watches them only because of the overlay feature, which can be turned off. What they send from that is just the success rate of the overlay, according the Discord CTO.
If Discord actually does dig around personal files though, I dunno man. I'd need proof before I believe that.
| Here's where I found that info by the way.
https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_discord_recording_our_open_programs_and/
| >>174216
The policy was changed to only open a discord link in the event someone asked about it.
It was gaining too many new people and it was becoming difficult to control.
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| I'd like to join!