Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform
Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609
They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.
How special for all of us discord users.
Come back to teamspeak.
Never left, still hosts my ancient TS server and TS5 (they skipped TS4 for some reason) was meant to be a clone of discords UI with Teamspeaks server backend. My community is old and cermudgenly so we never changed off the old client because it works.
Trust Discord to gamify sponsored content.
I get the hostile stance towards Discord considering where we are, but calling them just advertisements is a bit misleading.
It's not some screen real estate forever dedicated to show you various 3rd party ads like other platforms do. And what platform let's you opt-out of ads without paying money?
Not saying this is a great development though. I just feel like Lemmy loves to seethe at anything non-FOSS just for existing.
What's the best platform to replace Discord with? Revolt or Matrix? Something else?
What’s the best platform to replace Discord with? Revolt or Matrix? Something else?
For some reason I thought Guilded was FOSS but I guess I was wrong on that. Matrix is probably the better option but good luck getting your existing groups to switch over there from Discord.
It's not fucking about the fact that the ads are meager. It's about the fact that there are ads.
It's not like you go to sleep and wake up to find the things you love are suddenly ad-laden, have subscription services, and removed hundreds of features. But every time we say " yeah this is fine " then they'll add just a little more, and keep doing that until they've successfully ruined their platform.
Things like Lemmy and mastodon give me hope for this stuff.
Hopefully people start to migrate to another platform. I’m not a big discord user, but it seems that matrix could almost be a drop in replacement.
on its* free platform
You didn't notice all the paid for shit they added recently?
You think they are going to stop here? It didn't stop when they added nitro...
This shit is just the beginning. There is no bottom. It's self hosted open source or barbarism.
Line.
Go.
Up.
Use aliucord on mobile Its against tos so you might be banned but 🤷
Only if they find out, which is unlikely
So like.. Buy Nitro. Free services aren't free. You pay with money, data, or ads. Pick one or multiple.
Edit: Why are you booing me? I'm right. Discord isn't Peer to Peer so servers cost money. A lot of money. Get over yourselves and stop bitching about ads or pay for the shit you use.
There's a reason a lot of privacy focused people don't use discord you know...
People did buy nitro. When will it be enough? The answer is NEVER.
Capitalism.
When will it be enough?
When they aren't losing money? They wouldn't unleash an optics nightmare for a few more dollars. Only answer is not enough people bought Nitro and with attitudes like yours, it makes sense.