they do and people lie. regardless, i strongly dislike the idea of an ML model being used to try to guess this. can't wait for one to hallucinate that i'm 10
i know the feature you mean and... it only sends it to people who are in that server. i dislike it because a ML model is looking at my text and trying to regurgitate it, but theres no expectation that the people who get those notifications were never able to see. people lurk all the time, and discord messages arent ephemeral
but you're using a vpn at the coffee shop for privacy reasons, and the compromised dhcp server will allow a malicious actor to read all of your packets anyway
indie is literally a shortening of independent though, the term i believe originated from musicians who would release their music without a label to publish them