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With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit) (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The recent headlines saying "discord will be showing ads" is just intentionally misleading. No one even bothered to read the articles. They just saw the headline that agreed "discord bad" and didn't even question it.

Discord already has "ads" in different forms that are even more like ads than what those articles were talking about. They promote games and services as a "perk" for nitro. They also advertise all over for their paid stuff, like Nitro and profile decorations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I opened Discord yesterday, seems like now they even have lootboxes, what the heck

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure if you’re doing a bit, but that was an April Fools’ joke.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You know what, they just seem so pushy lately about Nitro and stuff that I didn't even get the joke

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That’s fair, I also fell for it originally. It was a pretty convincing prank, I really should be more suspicious on April 1st.