Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

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Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

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Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 days ago

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A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

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