[HN Gopher] Discord bans me for using their official client
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       Discord bans me for using their official client
        
       Author : jkcclemens
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2020-11-25 22:01 UTC (58 minutes ago)
        
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       | ubercow13 wrote:
       | It's probably not related to what you were doing when it happened
       | (closing DMs). It's just that their ML batch job happened to run
       | then, and aggregating your previous behaviours and network access
       | patterns across the whole app and maybe other things it
       | 'observed' about your use of your computer, it decided based on
       | some trained model that you were a spambot.
        
       | danuker wrote:
       | Time to check out Mastodon, Pleroma, and other distributed social
       | networks.
       | 
       | Walled gardens with chilling suppression begone!
        
         | stormcode wrote:
         | Mastodon can de-platform you just as easily as Discord if they
         | don't like what you say.
        
       | danuker wrote:
       | You mention GDPR. You do have a right to your data as per EU
       | rules. Feel free to talk with your state data protection
       | authority.
        
       | atian wrote:
       | The author seems to have used the auth from the official client
       | for some application. Discord indiscriminately bans due to API
       | abuse.
        
         | millzlane wrote:
         | How did you come to that conclusion from the OP? I've read and
         | re-read it. That's a good guess, but nothing indicates the
         | scenario you mentioned.
        
       | [deleted]
        
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