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tom, friend of eggbug
@lizard.tools

this is awesome actually. giant discord servers are where docs and information go to die, and having public servers (which anyone can find, join, and look at anyway!) be indexed by search engines is an objectively good thing in terms of making information more discoverable and accessible.

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Tolt Creepture
@tolt.bsky.social

I suspect that making information more accessible for everyone, while good, is a side effect and in the year 2026 there's no way that the motivation is anything besides making it more scrapeable for ai training

tom, friend of eggbug
@lizard.tools

idk why discord would want to make life easier for third parties to use their data for ai training tbh. if that was their angle there would be easier ways for them to get that data out and profit from it as well.

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@kzinssiebroiler.bsky.social

This is like the persistent rumor that there's a secret hidden official bot training AI on every server that you have to ban with secret commands instead of Discord just training AI on the logs they have access to in their servers in order for the software to function

Tolt Creepture
@tolt.bsky.social

I dunno maybe I'm just conditioned to flinch whenever a tech company announces anything anymore but it's not like these are companies known to do things for the greater good

tom, friend of eggbug
@lizard.tools

All I'm saying re: the AI stuff is that it's a bit of an occam's razor thing where handing over the data in a format suited for training and whatnot would be much easier and quieter than this.

tom, friend of eggbug
@lizard.tools

I mean there's definitely an incentive for them to do this. Think how right now any search will inevitably link back to reddit. If this goes well, then a lot of searches will start linking back to discord servers as well, giving them a ton of visibility they wouldn't have had before.

tom, friend of eggbug
@lizard.tools

if you're really worried about your messages in a public discord server being searchable, maybe consider not posting those things in a public discord server.

Glyph
@glyph.fyi

wasn't there already a service that got caught sneaking bots into every public server they could and archiving/indexing everything for their own search engine i swear that happened but search only wants to show me this new story about discord doing it officially

Matrices
@matrices.bsky.social

I LOVE documentation, discussions, forums, looking at info, reading, finding WIP pictures and screenshots with context in a searchable format, but I greatly dislike Discord for this 1 massive reason. Its all behind its walled garden you have to login and join. This is big for searchable help!!