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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by rovr138 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:08PM (#29716219)
> By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service

They have a license on everything sent AND they can use it to reproduce, publish, etc. So they very much can create the functionality.

Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:16PM (#29716284)
ofc they could but for what benefit to them?
Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by rovr138 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @02:01PM (#29716762)
People using their platform vs looking for others with the feature.
Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:04PM (#29717431)
I guess they reasoned about it and decided it's not worth their effort with a growth rate of 40%
Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by throw10920 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:35AM (#29725728)
Now you are moving the goalposts from "a discussion about what constitutes "your data" under GDPR" to "what would the benefit be for Discord", as you already have in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29715101