[didntcheck]

Reminder: everything sent on a forum, including DMs, is being logged in plaintext and will be available to the administrator

Unless you're using one of the few services implementing a true zero-trust model where the user manages their own keys, then obviously this is true. They are storing your messages, yes... so that you can access them

I realise there are services like Matrix which do pull off E2E group messaging in a relatively friendly way, but they are the exception. It's unfair to accuse Discord of unique alleged malice for behaving the same as 95% of electronic communication platforms ever

[inanutshellus]

1. you're making a "broken window syndrome" argument ("nobody fixed it in another case, so it must be okay, thus this case is okay")

2. nobody claimed malice on discord's part. instead he's saying that even if you trust Discord not to mine your data, do you trust whomever buys them?