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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/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] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Iceman 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.