Comment by Razengan

> It’s a little unsettling to think about how much information and knowledge is being locked up in walled-garden servers

Not just on Discord, in general, everywhere: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and even here HackerNews.

It's not just about being searchable or long-lived, but that they can pull the rug anytime (or make stealth edits like the Reddit fiasco with their admin Spez)

How to solve this? Should the burden of searchability and archival be a requirement upon companies that provide social media services? Third-party bots already manually crawl all services and provide external search/archive interfaces (like the "Reddit Undelete" services) How to make that better?