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I tag people that never fail to find something to argue about, obvious trolls, bad faith / sea lion conversationalists and so on. If I encounter them again and they show the same behaviour as a pattern, I fully block them.

I also use it for more fun stuff, like who is overly helpful, friendly or who recommended a good book. This way, if I see them again I get reminded of the positive interaction from before

edit: @OmegaLemmy@discuss.online you might want to replace “tag” with “label” or something, people think you mean username @tagging and don’t read the body of your post

Searchcord yes, but not the researchers from the headline

It also includes deleted messages. And they refuse to delete things when someone opts out

Deleted messages are not included. Neither the public nor the API allows you to read deleted messages

Upon joining a server, users gain access to all non-deleted historical content within public channels, and the same is valid for data retrieval using their API.

Yeah, exactly. It may sound scary or like a violation of privacy, but there is no privacy when posting to public online areas.

Well yeah, it’s not encrypted. It would be the same as 10 years of Reddit posts or Lemmy posts scraped