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Ever since the Digital Services Act came into action, I've found both it and companies compliance to it very interesting.
Which is why I'm announcing my latest article, an explainer for the DSA using Discord as an example!
blog.pnly.io/digital-service…
I'm seeing some people freak out about this so:
- only discoverable channels are shown, anyone on discord could already see these messages
- members are anonymised
- UK, EU & some other regions have their users' messages opted out by default
- servers can opt-out
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Discord is about to put your public messages on Google
Discord will start making messages from Discoverable public servers searchable on Google and other search engines from mid-December.
The feature is ON by default in most regions, but you can opt out:
User Settings → Data & Privacy → turn off “Show my message content from Discoverable channels on web pages.”
In the EU, UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea, it will be OFF by default.
Private servers, DMs and group DMs are not included. Usernames and avatars won’t appear alongside indexed messages.
"But nobody asked for this!"
They did, and dedicated bots like @AnswerOverflow existed to meet that need.
"I don't want my messages public!"
Opt-out, or - candidly - don't send messages you want private in public servers. I've said this countless times already.
