The wildest detail about the massive Discord user and message dataset is not even that it's connected to a notoriously toxic and violently transphobic community, but that Discord has known about it since at least February... and done nothing?
But maybe I shouldn't be surprised. Discord also didn't give a damn when it was used to coordinate the largest-yet spam attack in the history of the fediverse. https://www.404media.co/spy-site-selling-discord-messages-linked-to-kiwi-farms/
Josh Simmons /
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2024-04-20 01:57:44
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