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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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[–] Cruxifux 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How special for all of us discord users.

[–] andrewta 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Come back to teamspeak.

[–] Bahnd 3 points 8 months ago

Never left, still hosts my ancient TS server and TS5 (they skipped TS4 for some reason) was meant to be a clone of discords UI with Teamspeaks server backend. My community is old and cermudgenly so we never changed off the old client because it works.

[–] [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 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.

[–] [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] 4 points 8 months ago

Things like Lemmy and mastodon give me hope for this stuff.

Hopefully people start to migrate to another platform. I’m not a big discord user, but it seems that matrix could almost be a drop in replacement.

[–] itsnotits 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

on its* free platform

[–] Ultragigagigantic 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You didn't notice all the paid for shit they added recently?

You think they are going to stop here? It didn't stop when they added nitro...

This shit is just the beginning. There is no bottom. It's self hosted open source or barbarism.

Line.

Go.

Up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Use aliucord on mobile Its against tos so you might be banned but 🤷

[–] Shadowedcross 1 points 8 months ago

Only if they find out, which is unlikely