Using Discord in a private way?

Hi all,

I haven’t used Discord in a while, but it became so that now I have to use it for communication with certain people getting support for some services that I use. What I’m doing currently is:

  • using a separate randomised e-mail address only for the Discord account
  • using a randomly generated username
  • no profile picture
  • tweaking the settings as best I can for privacy

Other than these points, I’m also being wary of talking about anything personal on Discord. Would you add anything so I can be even safer when using Discord?

UnfortunateShort,

You can use it in a browser or opt for WebCord.

Note that any text send to discord currently stays there forever. I don’t know when, but you can bet your ass they will be investigated for a violation of the GDPR, which hopefully stops that for good.

JustMarkov,

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    UnfortunateShort,

    I heard the messages even stay when you delete them. At least people claimed they could recover then, don’t know whether that’s actually true.

    GolfNovemberUniform,
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    Discord doesn’t have encryption and, according to the terms of service, can read your messages. If you care about privacy, I definitely would not recommend using it for private conversations, especially after recent rumors about adding ads. I think they won’t lose the opportunity to use your DMs for it

    tobogganablaze,

    You forgot the VPN.

    just_another_person,

    Nope

    Harvest5634,

    Use any matrix client unstead.

    breadsmasher,
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    If youre just talking to friends directly without joining servers so this might not matter. But discord might require a phone number for verification? Im not sure what triggers it specifically- I dont think its required just for an account though

    variants,

    It depends on the server. Most servers set it to require an email verified account because of all the bots and spammers, I haven’t joined any that required a phone number but might if they support a product and want to link your discord to their orders or something

    mp3,
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    Always consider what you say on Discord as potentially public, since there is no E2EE.

    autonomoususer, (edited )

    Worse, anti-libre software, Discord, bans us from proving it’s claims, if it ever claims privacy, security, anything.

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