Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
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Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
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Things like this are why I hope that Spacebar, a FOSS self hosted Discord alternative looking to reach feature parity with Discord, takes off in similar fashion to Mastodon and Lemmy.
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There is also https://revolt.chat/
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Data Availability The dataset presented in this study has been made publicly available and can be accessed via DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.146585059. The data is provided in a compressed format, which can be decompressed for analysis. Detailed instructions for accessing and utilizing the dataset are provided in this article and the platform
Ok, and in regular english?
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Well the DOI is a digital identifier for papers and other data references for sciency stuff. But that DOI just points to the actual paper https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00627
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Link to where the archive is https://zenodo.org/records/15170676 but its been restricted from downloading
Note: Download access has been temporarily suspended at the request of the ICWSM program chairs.
EDIT: lol I love the Internet Archive Its 120GiB if anyone wants to try download it and see if it works.
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The only error I can see is "the data is" should be "the data are". Stylistically I would also change utilizing to using, which conveys exactly the same meaning and is more accessible.
Otherwise I believe this is regular English. It's ok to have difficulty comprehending language, but it's more productive to ask questions about the parts you don't understand.
Can I help with any specific questions?
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Public means public.
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Nice. Looks like it's time for a GDPR complaint against Discord for not protecting my data.