[Air-L] AOIR Discord?

[Richard Forno]

Presumably mailing list archives are also beig scraped by AI training bots --- at least if they're publicly accessible.

But I agree, comms privacy is paramount these days, for ANY number of reasons.


> On Dec 18, 2024, at 13:58, Fred Fuchs via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> 
> While I've used Discord for hobby uses like online 3D games, I urge caution in using Discord for professional and academic use given they allegedly scrape chats for AI training.
> 
> Our groups I participate in are looking for a similarly easy to use chat system to Discord. Ideally that would be one that is self-hosted for privacy reasons. Owning and controlling one's own data is important.
> 
> An email list works okay for asynchronous conversations, but something closer to synchronous communications might be helpful for this group.
> 
> Fred
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> On 10/26/2022 9:23 AM, Roo S via Air-L wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I'm wondering what AoIR members think of building a Discord?  I realize
>> that there are several platforms out there, and ironically we all are
>> probably "too close" to some of the failings and/or opportunities of
>> community, communication and digital space, but I would imagine that this
>> group would probably hold a strong consensus that group email threads and
>> listservs is an outdated way to share, organize, search for, and apply
>> information.
>> 
>> I'd love to connect more deeply with anyone who's interested.  Here's a
>> brief/simple survey to help me follow up and/or learn from the group:
>> https://forms.gle/zbxmg5433r7LctKf8
>> 
>> Last but not least, here's an interesting article about the applications of
>> Discord for better digital community practice:
>> https://www.newkinco.com/projects/anitya-metaverse-platform
>> 
>> Looking forward to connecting!
>> Roo
>> 
> 
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