Welcome Techlore Discord Members!

[Draken (Draken BlackKnight)]

Welcome!

[Henry (Henry Fisher)]

Let’s move the Discord privacy discussion to its dedicated thread

Discord is a privacy nightmare…

As you may have heard, Henry is sunsetting the Techlore discord. I was curious about how bad Discord was for privacy, so I started doing some researching and found this post on r/privacy, which does a great job of summarizing the issues. I also looked into Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included review, which also seemed to point out some pretty big issues. (Also I feel like no one ever talks about Privacy Not Included even though it does great dives into the privacy of products.) Here are some concern…

[ReduxFlakes]

Finally create an account, hi everyone! Looks cozy and I’m seeing familiar faces already!

[10-volt]

Maybe the discord could continue as a feed like matrix and stuff

[Henry (Henry Fisher)]

It could except I don’t actually think anyone uses the Matrix feed

[Aoxi]

I don’t think Discord is good idea since they are storing messages as plain text and have pretty much trackers…

[Henry (Henry Fisher)]

For any Discord people getting FOMO over lost emojis, I imported the most popular ones that you all can use now on the forum