Mastodawn

benjojo May 17, 2024

Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

{
  "user_id": "282657081457115136",
  "predicted_gender": "male",
  "probability": 0.8413839340209961,
  "prob_male": 0.8413839340209961,
  "prob_female": 0.11650349199771881,
  "prob_non_binary_gender_expansive": 0.04211260750889778,
  "model_version": "2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z",
  "day_pt": "2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC"
}

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint _over time_! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

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benjojo May 17, 2024

It also seems that the same archive has a guess at how old you are too, Discord has gotten this entirely wrong, except one time.

{
  "user_id": "282657081457115136",
  "predicted_age": "35+",
  "probability": 0.7547529339790344,
  "prob_13_17": 0.0005852651665918529,
  "prob_18_24": 0.014580278657376766,
  "prob_25_34": 0.23008151352405548,
  "prob_35_over": 0.7547529339790344,
  "model_version": "2024-03-20T00:00:00.000000Z",
  "day_pt": "2024-03-27 00:00:00 UTC"
}

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Arik

@benjojo following your toot I requested the data dump, it doesn't have the "/activity/analytics" folder.

The readme file states that "you will not have Analytics or Modeling folders in your data package if you've opted out of those activities" so thank you to past me, for opting me out of this at some point though I forgot about it.

I did notice a LOT of information about logins going back to 2018, and I wonder why Discord needs to store all of it. IP addresses and kernel versions included.