Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google

https://discord.com/blog/making-content-from-discoverable-servers-easier-to-discover

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privacyishuman•55m ago

Fluxer is what people should look at if they're trying to get off discord.

Imustaskforhelp•51m ago

Fluxer is amazing.

Quick self-promo to my website: https://mirror.forum which can help people find some fluxer communities and also help migrate discord communities to fluxer. It also works for not just fluxer but also matrix and stoat as well.

I have submitted Fluxer 2 times on Hackernews if not more, I really really strongly believe that people of HN should look into it more & (maybe my website as well :D)

layer8•23m ago

Just as friendly feedback, monospace fonts are difficult to read for me for that kind of content. The site also doesn’t explain what it is about. It says “terminal-grade communities” (whatever that means), but Fluxer doesn’t seem to be bound to terminals?

pavel_lishin•40m ago

Do Fluxer, etc., solve the problem of discoverability that this is supposed to help with? Or is it just a not-closed platform?

john_strinlai•39m ago

why Flxuer and not any of the other dozen or so replacements that have been mentioned every time a discord thread pops up?

hmartin•33m ago

How does it compare to Zulip?

BorisMelnik•21m ago

phpBB!

SOTGO•52m ago

I'm tentatively hopeful. I think it's a disgrace how many communities have moved from the open internet into Discord, and at least this is continuing to move towards fixing a lot of the problems that migration caused. I do wonder why they chose now though, it seems like there's potentially a lot of value in keeping this data private, or at least selling it for a fee

ganoushoreilly•34m ago

Don't forget why this happened. Discourse and opinions counter to the narrative pulled people away from public discussion due to fear or reprisal / issues.

Reddit outside of some niche subs still largely deals with global thought policing.

Freedom2•31m ago

Do you have an example of opinions that are counter to the narrative that faced reprisal?

ganoushoreilly•24m ago

Are you really questioning if there is reprisal against users or communities that don't toe the line? Cancel culture?

Let's talk Covid discussion, Hunter Biden's laptop, Political opinions, Discussions on Sexuality & Gender, etc. Ironically look at Bluesky last year and the efforts to switch because there was no longer suppression of certain opinions? (How'd that work out).

perchedonstilts•5m ago

>Let's talk Covid discussion, Hunter Biden's laptop, Political opinions, Discussions on Sexuality & Gender,

Let's not. Your cherry picked list of topics reveals you'd never listen to opposition/reality.

flxngll•51m ago

For channels with over 1000 members. I think you have to opt in for your server to be discoverable. Looks like the public message feature is opt out rather than opt in if the server is discoverable.

samtheDamned•51m ago

This seems like it would alleviate part of the concern I see on HN a lot regarding open source projects keeping their knowledge bases on isolated and unsearchable discord servers. It's still on a proprietary platform but this might be an improvement overall.

Imustaskforhelp•48m ago

I think that it can be a good change depending on how you interpret it but suppose it becomes part of Google search engine then, wouldn't it allow Google's AI quick summary to search/scrape that and have it part of training process

Or having all of the search/scrape data itself be part of the training process of Google/other's AI process?

A quick LLM search gives me the answer as a "maybe", but knowing the financial incentives at hand and why Discord might be opening up. I remain slightly skeptical as to why Discord wishes to open up to Google*

john_strinlai•33m ago

>Discord wishes to open up to Google

they aren't opening up to google specifically. any search engine will be able to index the content on the server web pages.

>but knowing the financial incentives at hand and why Discord might be opening up.

one of the biggest complaints about discord (other than all of the grooming and such) is that communities move to discord and then all of their (previously freely available) information is locked behind a login.

addressing a big complaint that many people have about your service is a good financial move.

freediver•38m ago

Just to note that Google is not mentioned in the title and indeed nowhere in the article. Searching the web is broader than 'google'.

rdmuser•27m ago

I'm always so conflicted about editing article titles like this for posts. I stick to original titles since that's the rules but it's tempting not to every time I see a post hit front page with good hooks edited in. These edits clearly work and rarely seem to be punished.

rdmuser•33m ago

You can opt out at an account level. I just checked and I'm already opted out so it seems like it might be using your previous data opt out settings.

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