FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price
Updated Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.
The service (for a lack of a better word) has been active since November 2023, vacuuming up user and server activity. Yes, all the info is already public in a way – Discord is kinda like IRC on steroids – and it's a reminder that it's not impossible to gather up all this chatter using bots for various purposes (if not surveillance then training AI models.)
The website presents the data it's collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.
Indeed perusing the privacy-smashing website isn't free. Users have to buy credits to look up profiles, access archives of conversations, and search for servers without having to sit through a cool-down time. Each credit costs one cent, and as a user profile costs ten credits to access (seven for cached profiles), it costs just a tenth of a dollar to look someone up. Of course, Spy.pet only takes cryptocurrency for payments.
