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If people accept this now, it'll only get worse. Give a company an inch and it'll take a country
Why is discord a business in the first place, what even is their product, my data?
I mean most probably yeah, but they have also been progressively locking more and more functionalities behind paid tiers.
Now that they have fully penetrated and locked the market, killed any potential competitors, and become the default, I assume their "product" will be to make the free tier become less and less functional while also getting monetized in more annoying ways. If people don't like it maybe they should have known better than to make it the default.
Unfortunate.
this is normal enshittification, we just move on to the next shit.
Yeah, I'm not gonna be very happy when I have to find a new platform to host my game jams on. Discord is where like 80% of my online interactions happen these days.
Im not big into conspiracies, but it's almost like companies are intentionally trying to deplatform regular people so they can't reach large audiences, only corporations can.
No doubt it does. especially damning if you look into the history of the founder. Discord's data is worth too much not to be used. They even have it on the ToS that they can transcribe voice calls.
Do you mean “transcribe”, maybe?
Whoops, yes
The paid subscription.
I don't know anybody that uses discord and pays for the subscription. They're gonna be really sorry when they try to force the subscription stuff onto people, and it backfires.
I've seen it slowly being pushed on me in increasingly intrusive ways. So far I've been able to ignore it, but we'll see how long that lasts.
Hi! You know one now. There are several people in my small server that either pay for Nitro, have bought profile decorations, or both.
I wonder if Pi Hole will be able to block the ads.
I’ve had success with a mix of snort and pihole. Lots of ads seem to violate some RFC and snort blocks it. It’ll even break ads in the Apple TV YouTube app. You just get a black screen while ads play.
Thanks for the info!
If you use an android device, like a fire stick, you can block 100% of those YouTube ads with a simple app. It doesn't break them, they just don't show up at all.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Discord had long been strongly opposed to ads, but starting this week, it's giving video game makers the ability to advertise to its users.
The introduction of so-called Sponsored Quests marks a notable change from the startup's previous business model, but, at least for now, it seems much less intrusive than the ads shoved into other social media platforms, especially since Discord users can choose not to engage with them.
Discord senior product communications manager Swaleha Carlson confirmed to Ars Technica that Sponsored Quests launch this week.
On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that it viewed a slide from a slideshow Discord shows to game developers regarding the ads that reads: "We’ll get you in front of players.
Sellis told WSJ that Discord will target ads depending on users' age, geographic location data, and gameplay.
In 2021, Discord enjoyed a nearly three-times revenue boost that it attributed to subscription sales for Nitro, which adds features like HD video streaming and up to 500MB uploads.
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On the one hand, I'm pretty anti-ad and I do my best to avoid seeing them - on the other hand I'm a game developer and this specific implementation sounds pretty cool
My friends and communities are all pretty entrenched in Discord, so I'm stuck with it for better or worse
IRC still exists.
That doesn't help much. Maybe if your friend group is around 40+ years old, and has been on the net since the 90s. But it's not a comparable product. Matrix with element is the closest foss alternative, but even then it has clunky ux, and spaces are a subpar replacement to discord servers.
I wish that wasn't the case but it is. The world needs a foss discord/slack option with an open protocol like matrix. If anyone knows of any projects in progress please let me know!
i dont fully know revolt.gg 's protocol but i think its open source and basically a discord clone
Looks great! Thanks for the recommendation
I think Matrix/Element is the proper replacement for Discord.
Would you even call these "ads"? It's more like a sponsorship or something
What would you call an ad?
The clear visual the headline is trying to convey is like a banner ad taking up space in the ui; not a sponsorship.
I don't love this, but I use it for free. What can I say really?