Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
https://www.404media.co/researchers-scrape-2-billion-discord-messages-and-publish-them-online/
https://www.404media.co/researchers-scrape-2-billion-discord-messages-and-publish-them-online/
15 Comments
x00z@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y
Nice. Looks like it's time for a GDPR complaint against Discord for not protecting my data.
rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 1y
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 1y
Things like this are why I hope that Spacebar, a FOSS self hosted Discord alternative looking to reach feature parity with Discord, takes off in similar fashion to Mastodon and Lemmy.
https://spacebar.chat/
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
There is also https://revolt.chat/
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y
Is there any word on whether Revolt is aiming to add voice and video chat as well as screen sharing?
Zulasas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Sadly the video chat feature is not being worked on and it is also not planed for the forseable future.
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y
That’s a shame. My limited understanding is that it’s a difficult feature to implement which is a bummer. It’s the biggest hold up from having a candidate for Discord alternative for my group of friends.
Zulasas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, same for my friendgroup. We're starting to use TS6. It supports screensharing now, but sadly it's only P2P. But the selfhost server software is in the works.
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Interesting! It’s the first I’m hearing that TS is bringing in screen sharing. Thanks for the info!
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Ok, and in regular english?
cm0002@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Well the DOI is a digital identifier for papers and other data references for sciency stuff. But that DOI just points to the actual paper https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00627
AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Link to where the archive is https://zenodo.org/records/15170676 but its been restricted from downloading
EDIT: lol I love the Internet Archive Its 120GiB if anyone wants to try download it and see if it works.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250521011912/https://zenodo.org/records/15170676/files/dataset.zst?download=1
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
The only error I can see is "the data is" should be "the data are". Stylistically I would also change utilizing to using, which conveys exactly the same meaning and is more accessible.
Otherwise I believe this is regular English. It's ok to have difficulty comprehending language, but it's more productive to ask questions about the parts you don't understand.
Can I help with any specific questions?
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
The data is correct English in this context. I was talking more about DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.146585059.
But others have said what it is.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1y
Anything that people write is correct really, like language is created by anyone making sounds or patterns to share meaning.
Data is a plural though, seppo dominance using it as singular is changing it outside that miserable empire but it's one of my hangups haha.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 1y
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