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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by judge2020 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:07AM (#33639043)
I think they ended up fixing this, all the deleted users I can find resolve to UID 456226577798135808.

Although, messages that used to @mention the user don't have their UID mangled (since @mentions are really `<@userid>`), so it'd be easy to correlate someone @pinging a deleted user and that deleted user responding to the ping. Seems like fixing this would be pretty challenging (logistically and computationally) given you'd have to arbitrarily edit other peoples' messages.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by anticensor on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:27AM (#33682288)
Mentions are also listed in the message metadata, in the allowed_mentions field, therefore it should be very easy for Discord to strip mentions of deleted users' IDs.
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