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In the scope of this guide, the key reasons to move from Discord to Matrix are:

* **Lack of privacy for private communications**, as private conversations are not only unencrypted, but also actively scanned (scope of which depends on your settings, but some happen even when you disable all the filtering-related toggles). [People reported](https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/t5v3of/viruses_now_get_turned_into_recipe_links_funny/) their messages were substituted with cooking recipes when they tried to send something that is considered a virus by Discord.
* **Excessive tracking**, such as the [science endpoint](https://luna.gitlab.io/discord-unofficial-docs/science.html) and the process logger (for activity status)[^9]. Most third party clients and some client mods do not support science endpoint, nor process detection.
* **Excessive tracking**, such as the [science endpoint](https://luna.gitlab.io/discord-unofficial-docs/science.html) and the process logger (for activity status)[^9].
* **Hostile stance against unofficial clients or client modifications**, thus preventing users from opting out of certain annoyances or tracking in a compliant way (even though users *tend not to* get banned for doing so).
* **Arbitrary phone number requirements**. Some users that are deemed suspicious and users that join certain "servers" are required to verify their phone number.
* Discord has made **decisions against the users' best interests**, with the most recent ones being:
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[^8]: Somebody actually tried to report a message after deleting it and they got "no such message in our database" from T&S. Also backed by [Stanislav Vishnevskiy's blog post on infrastructure of Discord](https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7#.fdhp3rxlo). However, deletions are basically a free-for-all matter: users (including bots) may decide to keep or repost deleted messages, and there is nothing stopping this.

[^9]: Process detection only exists in the desktop client. Somebody reverse engineered this process detection. Unlike Steam's similar process detection, this detection only sends the successfully detected games, not the list of every process running. Can be opted out by disabling the game activity detection. Science endpoint is said to drop the data server-side when the relevant toggles are disabled, however no one has verified if that toggle actually works. Hence assumed as "cannot be opted out".
[^9]: Process detection only exists in the desktop client. Somebody reverse engineered this process detection. Unlike Steam's similar process detection, this detection only sends the successfully detected games, not the list of every process running. Can be opted out by disabling the game activity detection. Science endpoint is said to drop the data server-side when the relevant toggles are disabled, however this claim cannot be verified. Hence assumed as "cannot be opted out". Note, that many third-party mods and clients do allow you to opt out of such but, as addressed prior, the ToS is against using them.

[^10]: Paywalling features related to customisation and expressivity is Discord's core business model, stated repeatedly by themselves and also verified by various third party sources. See [here](https://seoaves.com/how-does-discord-make-money-the-discord-business-model/) and [here](https://moneymodels.org/business-models/how-does-discord-make-money/).

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