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EamonnMR on Aug 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

Slack isn't free, they sell you history-in effect, you generate the data that they sell back to you.

mavhc on Aug 24, 2021 [–]

Holding your data hostage until you pay up, isn't that ransomware?

rokhayakebe on Aug 24, 2021 | [–]

Not if you voluntarily provided it in the first place.

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