• Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Well that didn’t last very long. It was 8 MB for like six years and then it just went to 25 MB maybe a year ago and now we’re back down to 10 MB.

    I’m surprised they aren’t offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

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      2 months ago

      I’m surprised they aren’t offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

      Hah. Hahaha. Hahahahahahaahahahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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        Just to be clear, I 100% think they are selling our data. What I meant was I’m surprised they’re concerned about the size of the uploads when they could just be selling the uploaded data.

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                I simply don’t trust any company that provides a “free” service and is owned by Tencent, who has a 35% stake in Discord.

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                  2 months ago

                  Neither do I, which is why I would love evidence to confirm my suspicions, so I can show it to others.

                  But I also try not to make claims that are merely suspicious, however likely.

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      I’m surprised they aren’t offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

      aren’t they doing it? but at least by looking at how much they like locking out people until they give out their phone number, I suspect they are not collecting it without having further use for it

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      2 months ago

      “by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is”

      I imagine China is using it for free since Tencent owns a 38% stake.

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      They increased to 25 to encourage media uploads to train their own models with. They now have collected enough metrics to realize, most valuable content is below 10MB. Now they are optimizing. They won’t lose anything valuable to them and the users who are impacted might even buy Nitro now. Win-win for them

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          https://discord.com/terms#5 is pretty permissive

          Your content is yours, but you give us a license to it when you use Discord. Your content may be protected by certain intellectual property rights. We don’t own those. But by using our services, you grant us a license—which is a form of permission—to do the following with your content, in accordance with applicable legal requirements, in connection with operating, developing, and improving our services:

          Use, copy, store, distribute, and communicate your content in manners consistent with your use of the services. (For example, so we can store and display your content.)
          Publish, publicly perform, or publicly display your content if you’ve chosen to make it visible to others. (For example, so we can display your messages if you post them in certain servers or recommend that content to others.)
          Monitor, modify, translate, and reformat your content. (For example, so we can resize an image you post to fit on a mobile device.)
          Sublicense your content, to allow our services to work as intended. (For example, so we can store your content with our cloud service providers.)
          
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        2 months ago

        It might have only even been like six months. It was in the little change log pop up during one of the updates at some point