• HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee
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    I have a Discord but I hear a lot about how easily you can get banned, largely on the whims of the people running a single server, so I’ve always been a bit reluctant to use it.

    Also, I find it genuinely disturbing how much information all these companies have about you and your stuff.

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    11 hours ago

    This is one of the bigger reasons I don’t want to use social media controlled by a corporation, it means they can choose to cut me off from people at their discretion, which will probably be based on what is convenient and easy for them.

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    11 hours ago

    Same happened to me but with animal cruelty content or something. I tried to get the account back but turns out it was a “ban wave” so a lot of other people who got banned but were innocent were doing the same so discords services got overwhelmed by the appeals. Maybe they should have realized after that that this kinda banning is a horrible approach.

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    This is why people should be worried of using these massive services, luckily it was ‘only’ Discord (if this was your primary way to interact with friends, this can be a huge deal).

    But imagine if it was your email account!

    Getting a reputable provider, self hosting or using a decentralized option is paramount for your own sanity.

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      There was that man who was all in on Google.

      He had a telemedicine appointment for his son who had a problem with his penis. Dr asked him to send a close-up photo so he could diagnose the skin condition

      So the guy takes the photo with his pixel phone and sends it

      The phone automatically backs up the photo

      Google’s AI says it’s child porn, his account is deleted and police are contacted

      Police look into it and say “not porn, totally fine” but have to go to his house to tell him the was no problem because his phone was Google, his internet was Google fibre, his email was Gmail and his photo album was on Google and all that was irrevocably deleted

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    I created a Discord account so I could try Midjourney and my account got blocked within a few hours. I use a VPN most of the time, can’t remember if I was with Discord so might have had the same IP as another user. Didn’t bother to set up another account.

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    I have no qualms about your getting banned for this.

    You are who you associate with. For example: trump associates with Epstein. Should he not be banned from discord?

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      So, if anyone in this thread ever posts CP elsewhere on lemmy, or even here in this thread now that you’re already here, you think your acct should be wholly banned from lemmy because you are who you associate with?

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        In your analogy this Lemmy thread and a discord group are the same. I disagree with this and would say the discord group would be more akin to joining a subreddit known for sharing that type of content.

        I am of course not giving anon the benefit of the doubt because of who they are.

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          No, he didn’t say “I joined a CP discord group,” he said it was a discord group. To use your subreddit analogy, if you join a subreddit called like r/gaming or some shit where they post about games, and someone posts CP anytime after the date you joined, you should be banned even if you didn’t open the app that day.

          I’m not giving you the benefit of the doubt either, for all I know you’re on c/CP which I didn’t know existed, and I could be banned for arguing you here. Maybe I should block/report you just to be safe, hmm? Idfk what comms exist on Lenis . org or whatever your server is, sounds sketch tbh…

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          When you go into a public space and see a guy you’ve never seen or heard of before in your life and then later get arrested for associating with a sexual predator because you looked at that guy even though nothing about him even hinted at anything to do with crime of any sort.

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            Once again not remotely similar to freely associating in a discord group with known predators.

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        Presumption of innocence is a thing, you know?

        In 2020 some small servers (50-200 people per server) got cover banned with all their users, mostly for political talk, as far as I’m aware.

        I, personally, usually join such small servers while looking for lobby members in older games, I have a couple of them muted except for channels dedicated specifically to game lobbies. If someone starts an “illegal” talk in any other channel on one of these, why should I be held liable? Or am I suddenly obligated to hunt for pipe bomb recipes in any server I join?

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          I don’t really know how to use Discord except by muting servers immediately after joining and probably never looking at them again

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        You know that some servers can have tens of thousands of people right?

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          What’s your point? That personal responsibly stops existing in a large group of people?

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            My point is that it’s very naïve to assume that everyone in a given server knows what one person potentially posted once, especially the large servers.

            Of course it’s possible they knew, but assuming by default that they had to have known is stupid.

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            So, what you’re saying is, if someone on your Lemmy instance breaks the rules of another instance, your entire instance should be defederated, right?

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        Just because they’re part of the server doesn’t mean they knew it was there.

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    Anon’s big mistake was not being the President of the Gulf of America.

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    I still don’t understand the point of discord. I just deleted the app cause it was sooooo boring. The only social media I have is a perma banned reddit account (a few), snapchat (which I never use anymore as I have grown out of it and it has turned to absolute shit) and the lemmsters. Feeling good