 That's something I'd love a reporter covering this spam wave to know: Discord is being used to coordinate illegal activity, and discord has no mechanisms for people to report abuse. abuse@ and support@ emails are dead ends, and their contact form has no "report abuse" option that works. Reporting it via the child safety team also didn't work. Update: TechCrunch covered it: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/discord-took-no-action-against-server-that-coordinated-costly-mastodon-spam-attacks/ 26 comments
@verge @404mediaco @theregister This is Discord's trust and safety team responding to a report that *children* were using their services for illegal activity:  @thisismissem @verge @404mediaco @theregister they seem to want people to join the offending Discord servers and put themselves at risk to flag specific messages from specific people with no way to flag the offending server itself.
I'm not sure why they chose to do this but it's clearly by design.  @thisismissem @verge @404mediaco @theregister "giant corporations have decent protection measures challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]" @thisismissem @verge @404mediaco @theregister "co-prosperity sphere nuke tool." Wonder if it's LOIC. @illumi241 @verge @404mediaco @theregister literally tried it. See the rest of the thread.  @thisismissem @verge @404mediaco @theregister somehow I can't see this, maybe I'm blind :D @illumi241 @verge @404mediaco @theregister @BNetzA Specifically, they've only ways to report individual accounts or messages, not the entire damn server where the illegal activity is being coordinated. @thisismissem @verge @404mediaco @theregister @BNetzA that sucks :( @thisismissem @illumi241 @verge @404mediaco @theregister @BNetzA time to go upstream to their service provider then? @thisismissem@hachyderm.io @verge@mastodon.social @404mediaco@mastodon.social @theregister@geeknews.chat That’s curious. If that’s the case, there can be legitimate complaints made to ICANN about that.  @thisismissem @verge @404mediaco @theregister this should be the headline... tagging @BBC_News_Labs @Sarahp @davidpierce @gaberivera  @thisismissem It seems thanks to quick action of Fediverse admins community this spam attack is something I did not experienced on myself, just read about for last 2 days.  Does this mean that the reporting function is 'broken by design' and these are functionally a 'by design' caught kind of approved server or something?🐘📝 👀👀  @infosec_jcp @koteisaev @thisismissem Capitalism. They aren't legally responsible for what users do on their platform and it isn't costing them money, so they don't care and don't want to hear about it.  @thisismissem haha yes, discord trust and safety is completely effed up :D people can do any illegal stuff on discord nowadays and their sh--ty t&s team won't do anything to those people, unless cops show up at their office. absolutely f--king bonkers of a platform and I have no clue how it's not sued to the grounds already hey, @thisismissem, maybe try out reaching to no text to speech youtube guy, perhaps he can make the platform by highlighting the issue, and he already made a video about discord terrible moderation when it comes to exposing minors to NSFW, so dunno, maybe he will make a video about discord doing nothing about spam attack coordination too @thisismissem @dangoodin “popular chat client facilitates spam” would be a juicy headline  @Jetengineweasel @thisismissem @dangoodin “Discord Sows Discord: How One Platform’s Inaction Is Enabling Hostile Factions”  @thisismissem @verge @404mediaco @theregister I’ve attempted contacting them through their normal support channels and got declined because “they only allow for messages to be reported” Incredibly helpful.  @thisismissem @verge @404mediaco @theregister That is nothing new re: Discord, as it's just garbage SaaS and worse than even Slack or Teams. IMHO noone should use it just by it's Terms and Enshittification alone. #Discord #Cybercrime #Enshittification #SaaS #MicrosoftTeams #Slack #ToS #Spam #Cybercrime @thisismissem Discord’s support channels have been frustratingly useless for years, this is sadly not surprising to me :/ |
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Really good point.