If you’re logged into a social media account and encounter a “share on said social media” button, this is dutifully logged and provides metrics of the types of groups encountering said button.

It’s not for sharing, it’s for metrics about what kind of people view the site/article/top ten list/hardcore porn. Targeted advertisement is cash money.

The problem is discord though, and the discord account requirement to even browse. I’m sure there’s things I’d like to read and reflect on in that discord server, but I’m not making a discord account. Any of the other ones I’d still be able to read and lurk without that buy in.

I wish people wouldn’t use Discord for everything. Just once can we use something else? A forum? A lemmy community? Heck, even reddit is still more usable for discussion.