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      “If you have nothing to hide” has never been a valid excuse to compromise on privacy.

      Yeah, most of the time you don’t actually need it, but if you don’t make it the norm, one day you’ll wake up and find that the entire concept of encrypted communication was made illegal.

      As the UK is actively trying to do. And the first sparks of which have been seen in the EU as well.

      And that’s before even bringing up that even innocent normal conversation data can be used to profile individuals and mass-influence the democratic voting process with targeted campaigning.

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          What?

          You need a forum, not a fucking discord server.

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              Again. What?

              Discord is a DM platform first, a public space second. And it’s way better at being the first, than the second.

              Providing support on discord is stupid, it’s only semi-public and hides solutions to already solved problems beyond the reach of search engines and real public platforms.

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                  Well yeah. But it sure likes to pretend at being one.

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                  I’m not trying to convince anyone to ditch discord.

                  You pushed the point that “it doesn’t need to be secure because it’s all public” which is complete bullshit. Not everything on discord is public.

                  That its secondary ability to function as a public space has over the years become the standard way to provide a point of communication in a manner that tries to fit the round peg into the square hole, is not an excuse for their privacy policy to be as crappy as it is.