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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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[–] donuts@lemmy.world 92 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Well yeah, it's not encrypted. It would be the same as 10 years of Reddit posts or Lemmy posts scraped

[–] simple@lemm.ee 81 points 3 days ago (7 children)

This isn't even them scraping private chats and small servers, they just scraped public servers in the discovery tab. None of that information was ever private, and every user can browse the chat history there.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

Yeah, exactly. It may sound scary or like a violation of privacy, but there is no privacy when posting to public online areas.

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