Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site
Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.
The website presents the data it's collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.
I would love to move off discord to matrix, but I fear I would quickly run into the issue that most of my group already is in Discord and would move apps just for one person.
Totally relatable. Thats why we have chat bridges. You can use matrix with your matrix friends and have your friends talk to you over a bridge. This also helps them move because they wont lose anyone either. My bridge works for months without fail now.
I think tchncs.de runs bridges. Consider joining their matrix.
While true, in the context of this news about discord being scraped, a bridge would not prevent the scraping, and would allow the matrix data (if the bridge is two-way) to also be scraped (which, come to think of it, if they can scrape discord, there's every reason to believe they can scrape matrix as well).
Depends on your perspective I guess. For one, your data lays on your home server first and you actually have encrypted rooms if you want.
Somebody is definitely going to say that you can absolutely scrape matrix since it is federated which is correct. But you can make a private matrix server too if you want.
All in all, having no ads, no paywalls, control over your data, freedom in customization, e2ee, no way to ban you from your server or ban your server from the service.
I could probably find more but those are the most obvious imo.