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

submitted 7 months ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] redfox@infosec.pub 10 points 7 months ago

Vote with your feet. Have to leave the platform if you want to stick it to them.

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[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 10 points 7 months ago

This is why I set my server up to mirror to a Revolt server (we're an rp server)

Eventually, folks will want to move, some will say, "But all our posts", and I can go, "Good news!"

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[-] suckmyspez@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Discord is a sack of shit anyways…I don’t get the obsession?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 7 months ago

It's decent for voice chat in games.

I'm not sure why it became the open source world's documentation platform of choice.

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[-] summerof69@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

Investors, who made Discord possible, want to earn money. It's totally understandable.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 10 points 7 months ago

The users (the people generating the profit for iNvEsToRs) deserve better.

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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I get so tired of this "servers are expensive" cycle. Anyone know of a good P2P alternative? No servers, no ads, no subscriptions.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Skype was P2P for voice, video and files- only text chat and user discovery had any major server usage so users could receive chats while offline. Microsoft still sought to centralize & monetize it, they actively removed a lot of the P2P networking to "improve user experience". Any service owned by any profit seeking corporation will have the same end result regardless of the underlying tech; their excuses will just change forms.

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