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Discord "servers" are groups you click on an "invite" to join, there is some framing where you are lead to believe the conversation is not public. Bluesky had

Discord "servers" are groups you click on an "invite" to join, there is some framing where you are lead to believe the conversation is not public. Bluesky had a similar freakout when HuggingFace packaged up a snapshot of the firehose and this discussion was had ad infinitum - in Bluesky's face every post is explicitly public -- but a very vocal minority of users still felt they had been wronged because no one asked if they were OK with being a part of a research project. There's definitely a gap between what users /should/ be aware of and what impression they actually get using a service, and you have to keep in mind most people are not techies that have spent years of their life wrestling with issues of privacy and data ownership, so announcements like this can come as a surprise, the first time they considered that what they said in one context can be moved to another.

AStonesThrow 1y ago
“Three men may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
bee_rider 1y ago
Although, calling it an invite is probably not good or clear communication on Discord’s part. If an invite is publicly posted for anyone to see and there’s no vetting of who is getting the invites… that’s just a public space.
- smileybarry 1y ago
  But “publicly posted” discord invites can mean links in streamers profiles, project websites, etc. While anyone can type that website’s URL, it’s generally expected a group of the public would see & follow that invite, e.g. a streamer’s viewers. It’s not a public space like how a shop on the street is a public space. Plus, even if the server is in Discovery (and thus really publicly advertised), they’re still mostly sorted into 10+ rooms. Just because a library is public, doesn’t mean I should expect Study Room B will be recorded by John Jameson and entered into a public dataset.

AStonesThrow 1y ago

“Three men may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

bee_rider 1y ago

Although, calling it an invite is probably not good or clear communication on Discord’s part. If an invite is publicly posted for anyone to see and there’s no vetting of who is getting the invites… that’s just a public space.

smileybarry 1y ago
But “publicly posted” discord invites can mean links in streamers profiles, project websites, etc. While anyone can type that website’s URL, it’s generally expected a group of the public would see & follow that invite, e.g. a streamer’s viewers. It’s not a public space like how a shop on the street is a public space. Plus, even if the server is in Discovery (and thus really publicly advertised), they’re still mostly sorted into 10+ rooms. Just because a library is public, doesn’t mean I should expect Study Room B will be recorded by John Jameson and entered into a public dataset.