cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14399569
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.
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.