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

submitted 5 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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[–] fenrasulfr 102 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Considering it is free to use, with streaming, voice/video calling , it surprises me that the enshitification didn't start earlier.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

Deffo waiting for lots of people to be on it before turning up that dial.

Seems to be the standard silicon valley business model these days. The old "drug dealer outside school giving away free samples to get you hooked" we all heard about but never saw.

[–] johannesvanderwhales 8 points 5 months ago

But they also have monetization streams. Nitro. Boosts. Paying for servers. In essence a small number of users pay the costs to keep a server going.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They tried their best to make Nitro succeed first before turning to other methods of making money.

[–] Iceman 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The paradoxical demand of ever growing profits made this unavoidable anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

To a degree, yes. But a non-public company doesn't usually have that "obligation" for ever-growing profit. Unfortunately, Discord's goal does seem to be to eventually get an IPO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Which to me shows why enshittification is so closely tied to austerity and economic downturn. For example I have a buddy who bought Discord Nitro whenever he could. But he recently got laid off and of course that was the first monthly expense he cut.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I personally don't like it and I don't use it too much, but since its features, I don't see how we can complain: nothing is free, they sure have costs