Making Content from Discoverable Servers Easier to Discover
discord.com
Starting on November 16, 2026, conversations in Discoverable Servers will be easier to find for people searching the web. Admins can choose which channels are surfaced on the web. Private servers, DMs, and GDMs are not included.
  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    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.

    • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Seriously, the amount of times the only avenue to access information has been an expired invite link is ridiculous. Anyone who doesn’t want their privacy violated should’ve got out of discord much sooner, the writing has been on the wall for years. Besides, plenty of the shit that’s currently functionally private should actually be public.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      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.

    • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
      01·
      11 days ago

      Discord is owned by Microsoft, a huge proponent of AI. So, yeah.

      Edited to add, I was mistaken! Discord turned down Microsoft’s buyout.

  • Zagorath@quokk.auEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    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.

    • XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      11 days ago

      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.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        01·
        10 days ago

        it seems like search results are the internet is just becoming less useful.

        FTFY

  • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    If there’s no choice in this, it is bad. If “servers” are allowed to opt-in, and users are interrupted with a warning before posting on a “server” that has changed the setting, it’s possibly good.

    I know Discord messages have never been secure, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a place people treated as private. Suddenly making messages accessible is like replacing all the bathroom stall dividers with transparent partitions: never was secure from a real threat, but there was a heightened expectation of privacy.

    There are a lot of fandoms and communities and support groups with the intent to be public and having those indexed by your favorite search index will bring value, just like public web fora of the past and reddit (even ex-Twitter) before extreme monetization and slopification. But, changing any shared information or thoughts from inaccessible to accessible is virtually guaranteed to cause harm via unwanted disclosure and those harm could be irreparable and impossible to balance with the benefits of accessibility.

    This news is mixed, with a side of anxiety. I’m not really sure what’s going to show up in my Discord history.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • AppleMango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    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?

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      01·
      10 days ago

      maybe it’ll also get people off discord?

      Quite the contrary, because it’s 1 less complaint about it.

  • Djehngo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    11 days ago

    Unpopular opinion: discord being inacessible from the web is a feature not a bug and I hope this is opt in on a per server basis.

    The fact that you can’t read the posts from a discord community without joining the server and there is no cross-server “all” or “front-page” means you have to decide to join and decide to in that moment look at that server, so you wind up with more focused communities around specific interests.

    No raiding from other platforms because no direct links, no product placement since few people will see it, no content creators posting clickbait slop trying to go viral etc. etc.

    I’m not going to pretend discord is perfect, but I have had better conversations there than any other social media platform