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Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) by EamonnMR on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:38PM (#28293831)
Slack isn't free, they sell you history-in effect, you generate the data that they sell back to you.
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Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) by mavhc on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:04PM (#28294997)
Holding your data hostage until you pay up, isn't that ransomware?
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Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) by rokhayakebe on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:29PM (#28295227)
Not if you voluntarily provided it in the first place.
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