> Most people using Discord, even on "public, discoverable" servers, aren't posting with the expectation that their words will be systematically scraped, archived indefinitely, and made globally searchable outside the platform's context
Honestly, maybe they should. Maybe we need more stuff like this, until people finally wake up about the privacy catastrophe. The now defunct service spy.pet used to sell this kind of data with the stated purpose of doxxing people. There’s black markets for this. And it’s the same kind of data the service providers themselves have full access to.