Show pagesourceBack to top Share via Share via... Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Yammer RedditRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalinkHelp or get help'd × Table of Contents Keyboard shortcuts Chat commands privacy issues Information silo more information articles videos alternatives Discord Discord is a proprietary messaging service with audio and video chat options. Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+K quick switcher Chat commands @everyone mentions all users in a chat privacy issues Discord tries to take ownership of all the data you upload to the service, including your spoken and written word, in their ToS Discord tries to de-anonymise users There are people mining discord servers for PII: Dis.cool, Help us fight Dis.cool Information silo Like other closed-off chat apps, Discord is used to communicate valuable information like bug fixes, technical help guides and even life advice. However, you can't have a global search on Discord (and you probably also don't want to, because of the privacy issues). That means that lots of information is not searchable in the public internet and instead is separated into the Deep Web. That means instead of sharing knowledge with the world, you're sharing this to a select group of people in an information silo. Since this is also not archived, all information is lost as soon as the Discord "server" is deleted. The same applies if Discord as a company loses interest in preserving history for you, starts charging money for basic features like search1 or goes bankrupt and stops providing the service altogether. more information articles RMS on Discord Spyware report on Discord Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (Drew DeVault, 2021) videos The Dark Side of Discord, […] best Solutions and Alternatives (Techlore, 2021) alternatives Matrix – decentralised and open source. They're working on their "discordification" to get feature parity with Discord. Still is an information silo if you don't make your chatlogs public. [1] which other services did in the past Last modified: 2023-03-15 09:36