Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Sep 17, 2025

A lot of people will start learning very fast about privacy on Discord.

Or rather, that there is no privacy on Discord. 

> Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassination-sparks-6da

If you run any kind of project or community and use Discord, this would be a very good time to reconsider your choice of a platform.

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Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Sep 17, 2025

Just to make this clear because it seems it's not clear to a lot of folks using Discord:

The way Discord uses the term "server" is massively misleading. There is no separate physical or logical infrastructure involved. No separate "instance" of any software.

In Discord, "server" means the same thing as "channel" on Telegram, or "group" on Facebook.

With everything that this implies – like Discord's access to all data shared in these "servers", including "private" ones.

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@rysiek This always rubbed me the wrong way. The audacity of some random company to co-opt the term "server" for their own marketing.
Sep 18, 2025 at 1:35amWeb