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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/technology
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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] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Genuine question, but what's unusable without Nitro? I don't use Discord very often, and the only thing that I've seen Nitro pushed for is reactions from other communities, and that's pointless anyway.

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

video calls and screensharing is very, very rough (locked to 480/low frame rates) without nitro, for one. the file sharing limits are also extremely restrictive.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

its actually locked to 720p/30fps w/o nitro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

with some of the worst realtime compression i have ever seen

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

i agree, but you cant just lie to make a point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Fair enough. I tried video calling with it at the beginning of the first lockdown, and it was fine for what I needed, but most of the video calling programs were a bit rubbish then.

I very rarely share files with people outside of an already set up organisation, so I haven't had a reason to try their file sharing.