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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?

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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

getting support for some services that I use

NAME AND SHAME please.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 points 6 months ago

Honestly the list of ones that DONT use Discord would be shorter. It's extremely unfortunate. I championed Discord for many years as well.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

That could potentially open them up to legal problems. Whether it's technically legal or not, nobody wants the possibility of their livelihood being taken away by court costs just because some idiot who is wrong wants to fight them and lose anyway, because they can afford it and you can't (and often times they know it).

I once paid for access to a stock options trading group, but they only used discord. Their website had no other contact info at all. My discord account got randomly banned (it happened right after I joined an innocent server, but maybe because a bunch of people were joining at once, that triggered it? idk), so I could no longer use the service I was paying for. The service auto-renewed on my credit card and I had no way to contact the people to cancel my account (couldn't even make a new discord account). I had to dispute the charge with my CC company and it took months of back and forth with them because they simply could not understand that I could no longer access the only method of support that they offered.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

It's not illegal to tell people that a company uses discord for support. You're not slandering them if it's the truth.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

You don't know how to post from an alt account?