Now lemmy servers need to do the same.
Maybe some do, but they never show up in search queries whenever I tried. I even filtered by sites.
A lot of lemmy servers have Human Verification in front of them maybe that’s why?
Could whitelist specific search engine crawlers
To be clear, this is really good - so much information has moved from being accessible on the open internet in the form of public forums, to being inaccessible in the form of public discord servers. This brings back that lost information.
google couldnt rely on reddit to scrape AI data, because its been taken over by said AI slop. google needed a new source of datamining. thats why reddit is becoming increasingly aggressive into forcing logins.
Wow this is actually great. Still doesn’t excuse groups using Discord instead of traditional forums, because traditional forums are still browsable without an account. But the lack of indexing has been such a huge flaw with public groups using Discord. Addressing that issue goes a long way to making Discord a less shit platform for open source apps, games, etc. to run their support from.
I’m confused how this will work tho. If I click on a search result that goes to discord will it take me to somewhere I can see it? I don’t have a discord account. If it going to just take you to a login screen? I can’t click reddit results anymore since they block VPN traffic without an account. So it seems like search results are just becoming less useful.
If I click on a search result that goes to discord will it take me to somewhere I can see it?
I assume not, which is why I still think this is worse than using normal forums. You’ll probably get a link to join the relevant server, and will probably require a Discord account to do it.
Which is very annoying and unfortunate, but is a huge step up from all that content being entirely undiscoverable.
It’s possible that someone could write a bot that displays a mirror more exactly. Not sure how easy it’ll be to both do that and not get taken down, though.
I mean for me personally this is worse because I will not make a discord account so the content is still unusable but now my search results are full of detritus.
As much as I would normally hate something like this, the way so many projects are based on discord (and how unsearchable discord messages are) make this really convenient
Probably the worst solution, but maybe it’ll also get people off discord?
You can bet they’re selling it to AI companies for training, too.
google needed to find a new site to scrape after thier fall out with spez.
What else could their product be?
They‘re Discord. They‘re selling all their data in basically real time to anyone who wants it. If there‘s a Discord user someone wants to know more about they can just pay like 5 bucks to a service and get their entire chat history. That stuff is automated.
Discord is owned by Microsoft, a huge proponent of AI. So, yeah.
This is false, Microsoft does not own Discord
they are trying to fill the reddit void for search ability and usability. they will reneg and disable it over profit somewhere
What about past comments on a server that was public before this change came into place? I have no idea if any of the servers I commented on roughly 6 years ago were public. They were free servers for people playing WoW, and some had passwords and some didn’t. I didn’t make any controversial comments, but I also didn’t (knowingly) consent to anything I typed being publicly searchable.
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Oh fuck
