We should use the best tools for the job.
We use Discord because it is a powerful tool.
Nothing in crypto even comes close to what Discord provides.
And even if we did that wouldn't stop anyone from scraping that service for data.
In certain respects this irrational need to stop these corporations from making money is silly.
These corporations are providing free services.
Of course they're going to monetize the data.
This isn't going to be a problem worth solving until it gets a little bigger, IMO.
It doesn't bother me that companies want to make money. Companies are made of people, and people go into business to make money. That's a good thing.
I only commented because many people (and I'm included among them) aren't used to thinking of chat content as publicly availble content for data scraping. After all, chat isn't like tweets from X/Twitter, threads from LeoThreads, or threads from Threads (by Meta). Microblog entries on those platforms are historical in nature; chats are supposed to be ephemeral unless the chatter makes them available.