discordsucks

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The flag is not on my (usually used) account. I can perfectly use that one (though it seems to be the case that old accounts can and sometimes are flagged, not for me though). It is set on new accounts in an otherwise empty browser profile over a clearnet connection in the adress space of a rather large ISP. So there should be no context to work with at all unless creepy things are done. Having some amount of google cookies didnt help either.

discordsucks

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Honestly, my comment was pretty balanced imho. Discord does provide great UX for what it is good at. That is gaming communities and day to day chatter and such. I even think it has a huge lead in that regard other than maybe being a bit slow on weaker hardware - probably cause electron. It just has inacceptable entry barriers for documentation purposes by collecting your data and severe limits on how much content can be accessed and more importantly retained. I spare you to repeat myself on why I think so. Especially open source projects shouldnt make it a requierement to hand over your data to a entity which has recently been fined for GDPR violations in order to use them.

discordsucks

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

Cant be just that. You can change your IP, create a whole new browser profile and of course not log into your old account and it will still flag you. It might just be that Im unlucky and for some reason outside of my control whole regions of my ISPs adress space are flagged.

discordsucks

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

This is one but not the only case discord uses mobile numbers. If for any reason discord figures you are a probable source of spam - they dont tell you the criteria for that for obvious reasons - discord will present you with a prompt to verify with a unique mobile number. They only tell you so after the normal email signup and the profile will be instant locked. So you are locked out on profile not on "server" level. For people not on discord: A "server" is something like a subreddit or a part of discord which is subadmined by a certain group/admin. The thing is whatever they exactly do it can flag you for any reason, not only if you really spammed the platform and they seem to use rather creepy technology to make the flagging sticky. At least flushing your browser profile and changing IPs is NOT enough to remove it, so they might be using TLS supercookies, screen resolution or whatever. Would be intresting if some privacy researcher reverses their tracking tech. I had that happen to me in the past and cant tell you what exactly caused it. It may (and equally likely may not) have been caused by an account of mine being thrown out of a "server" after pointing out some lets say inaccuracies that our student government spread. (I didnt spam the server. But it contraticted some talking points they rather not want contraticted.) This wasnt a platform ban either just a local admin action, but it teached me you really want seperate identifiers for different tasks, especially if you somehow engage with politics, cause otherwise crazy people will start following you around and discord makes it easy to track you across servers. You would probably run into the same issue if you engage with health related, nsfw or really any non mainstream content. Other reasons discord might figure you are a likely spam source might be use of a vpn or a network range they already have seen spamming. I cant tell you if they also just want to collect numbers, a blog post of then claimed they only do so to combat spam and not for advertising. At least in germany mobile numbers are tied to your real identity: To get one you have to provide ID to the mobile provider so the goverment has an easier time to spy on you if it wants to. Also you can be followed between platforms with the number. For example you would be able to find me on signal if you had my number. There are ways to firewall against this by using virtual mobile numbers (google voice or something) but they can be detected, it is work and Im not sure if they are allowed or blocked. Lastly, at a certain point you can only join so many "servers" with a free account, which will be quickly reached if every damn software project out there uses one. Though I think this is fair from discords POV. I mean in the end they need to make money somehow.

discordsucks

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Im aware of that and dont have a solution for that. Its not my job to provide one. The thing is there doesnt need to be one if you just document your stuff in a normal way. Also other platforms like reddit face the same problem and seem to be able to solve it in another way, so its not mandatory to survive in the net. Spam has always been an issue as long as the public internet existed. There are other ways to deal with it than introducing global identifiers which can be correlated between platforms and the "real world".

discordsucks

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Discord IS harder to sign up to than other stuff. They sometimes force you to sign up with a mobile number and thats just a huge NO NO.

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