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submitted 2 years ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] corbin@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago

That's not how hosting a platform works. The storage might be cheap per GB, but the database management for something on Discord's scale is a complicated and expensive feat of engineering: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages

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