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There is something mildy infuriating about Discord putting Tux behind a paywall. (piefed.chrisco.me)

submitted 1 week ago by michael@piefed.chrisco.me to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Discord pays for their own infrastructure, so their "Nitro" subscription pays for additional features, which off the top of my head include:

larger attachment sizes
higher video quality when screen sharing in a call
higher audio quality in calls
using custom emojis and stickers from other "servers" (they aren't actual self hosted servers, that's just the name of discord communities, they have a collection of text+voice channels that you can talk in)
built in themes with discord client

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "Linux" emoji, as the other person said, is likely from a different community ("server")

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

If you create your own server you can add whatever image you want as custom emoji/sticker. Someone probably uploaded an image of Tux as a custom emoji for their community