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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Investors, who made Discord possible, want to earn money. It's totally understandable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The users (the people generating the profit for iNvEsToRs) deserve better.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This is why I set my server up to mirror to a Revolt server (we're an rp server)

Eventually, folks will want to move, some will say, "But all our posts", and I can go, "Good news!"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Vote with your feet. Have to leave the platform if you want to stick it to them.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (25 children)

Discord is a sack of shit anyways…I don’t get the obsession?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I get so tired of this "servers are expensive" cycle. Anyone know of a good P2P alternative? No servers, no ads, no subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Skype was P2P for voice, video and files- only text chat and user discovery had any major server usage so users could receive chats while offline. Microsoft still sought to centralize & monetize it, they actively removed a lot of the P2P networking to "improve user experience". Any service owned by any profit seeking corporation will have the same end result regardless of the underlying tech; their excuses will just change forms.