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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/discordapp

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.