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Sylvia Lilith

@estrogen-and-spite

The implied bitch

I have no idea what I’m doing and you can’t stop me.

Author, Trans Woman, Hypno Domme, Hopeless Romantic, Sadist, newly out system.

Pronouns are She/It, perpetually happy HRT gave me titties and sad it didn’t give me tentacles.

I had shame once.

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WebsterLeone
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Dropbox/Onedrive/Google Drive are the only file hosts that have a free plan that I know of.

For embedding there are some free web hosts but I doubt there are any that have much more space than those file sharing services do. Like, Neocities is an option, but it only gives you 1GB on the free plan, whereas Onedrive is 5GB, Google Drive is I think 15GB, and Dropbox is 2GB.

Unfortunately it's not "don't use Discord because <moral reason>" it's "don't use Discord because links will break however often Discord wants them to." They're done with providing free hosting as a side-effect of how their system works. OTOH if you just need to share something with folks for a few days and don't care that links will eventually expire, go ahead and keep using Discord, it's not a problem.

estrogen-and-spite
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Is there a good way to mass pull discord messages and images from a dm history?

This has got me paranoid about losing everything I have in DMs with my partner and a couple others I like to revisit, as well as a couple important business conversations. I want to pull all the images but also like, the text because I’m tired of discord scaring me like this. Any suggestions?

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craw
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something confuses me a lot about this. they mention that cdn urls posted [within discord] before they expire, will be updated by the client when tried to be accessed after expiration

does this mean the actual message content... changes? when it includes an expired url to a cdn link that was valid on posting?

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pendell
@pendell

I would imagine the link in the message would remain the same but the client would simply strip away the expired parameters and serve up fresh ones for you to view the media through.

So like the link in that old message wouldn't change but if you open in browser that link you're actually viewing the media on would be different, as your client served a new id and stuff.

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dog
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I know some of the comments here have come across as mean-spirited, so I hope you can read me as coming with good intentions when I say that you're going to have trouble finding something exactly as cheap and convenient as you're used to and want. Twilight Sparkle has given you what's probably the best options that exist. The era where you could get free, unlimited media storage for embeds without even creating an account is probably over for now.

File hosting and bandwidth both cost money; if a service is offering those for free, it's because they're getting something else out of it. If they're not a social media service where you're using that media in their own platform, the relationship's one-sided: they're taking on all the costs, and you're getting all the benefits. I know a lot of companies are making bullshit excuses about The Economy for cutting back on stuff, but it's actually true that startups are suddenly struggling because they've been using effectively free money for years to subsidize business models that lose money hand over fist and that free money's disappearing. It's a good time to get used to learning other ways to host this stuff because we're going to need that in the future.

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sorry i don't mean to imply anyone is dumb! just spreading the word a bit further given the changes that are happening, in my specific case i was referring more to people using it for images embedded here on cohost, and the solution there is you can use cohost itself to host those images! it's a bit of work right now where you use a draft post for uploading it, but it's nice to keep it all consistent here :3

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neen
@neen

thank you!

and yeah, i understand why it's suddenly come up as A Thing again, but the knee-jerk and ableist tone of "everyone should learn how to set up their own server, it's so easy" and lack of non-DIY solutions from the tech crowd whenever something like this happens is so incredibly frustrating.

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WebsterLeone
@WebsterLeone

I mean I don't think they're going away any time soon, it's just a problem of embedding/direct-linking files. Having a backup is a good idea but unfortunately I don't know of a good way to do it. You can do the "request your personal data" bit but I'm not sure if that covers anything anyone else sent as part of a DM.

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asg
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Yeah, exactly. Discord isn't getting rid of the images. It's just that, when you open a discord image in a new tab, or right-click copy image url, the URL you get will be time-bounded and stop working after a few hours/days/whatever.

For an alternative, put the images you want hosted forever in a github pages site?

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lifning
@lifning

i read "I'm tired of discord scaring me like this" as having recognized the pattern, not just being concerned with this specific cdn link change. the next stop on the enshittification express may well be, say, "delete your account to opt out of us training an AI on your nudes" tier of problem. it's good to have preserved your important connections with loved ones before that point!

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