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Discord may be a popular instant messaging and social platform, but it has come under fire lately due to a series of baffling decisions. In February, the company threatened to restrict your account unless you provided ID and facial scans , and now it wants to make some of your messages more public than ever, apparently to grow communities.

Recently, Discord announced that Discoverable Servers will include "Server Web Pages" starting November 16, which summarize the server. Anyone can search for these pages through Google (as well as lesser-known alternative browsers such as Opera). In the spirit of fairness, this change should only affect the most public of public Discord servers. These are servers with over 1,000 members, at least eight weeks old, and that meet various safety standards.…