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

submitted 6 months ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/discordapp@lemmy.world

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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@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

How special for all of us discord users.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Come back to teamspeak.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 6 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.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 5 points 6 months ago

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?

[-] Zink@pawb.social 1 points 5 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.

[-] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 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.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 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@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

on its* free platform

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Only if they find out, which is unlikely

[+] RealFknNito@lemmy.world -14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So like.. Buy Nitro. Free services aren't free. You pay with money, data, or ads. Pick one or multiple.

Edit: Why are you booing me? I'm right. Discord isn't Peer to Peer so servers cost money. A lot of money. Get over yourselves and stop bitching about ads or pay for the shit you use.

[-] Zidane@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I have nitro and still saw ads, what now angry man

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

They should fix that 🤷‍♂️

[-] Zink@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago

Fix? Sounds completely intentional. Nitro was never said to block ads, anyways. And giving money to a company because they added ads is incentive for them to do more.

[-] Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

There's a reason a lot of privacy focused people don't use discord you know...

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

Yeah because they're typically hyper-paranoid about shit like if Discord knows if your keyboard is plugged in or not. I just don't get why the fuck people on the Discord community are allergic to supporting Discord. Everyone just wants free shit and it's getting old.

[-] Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It collects information about almost everything you do in the app, and since there's no e2ee, that includes seeing every single message you send, which is great for moderation, not so great for privacy, especially in case of a breach.

There are plenty of people who support discord, I've been a nitro user for years, I just don't think the service as a whole should become shittier just because not every single person pays for it. There are also concerns about its desire to go public, since there's almost always more enshittification leading up to a company becoming public, as well as after.

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

People like you would have never allowed public libraries to exist. Good thing your ancestors didn't stop it from happening.

I hope someday soon you escape from that tiny little box you think in.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Hey dipshit, libraries are funded by taxes, Discord isn't. Find a bridge.

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

People did buy nitro. When will it be enough? The answer is NEVER.

Capitalism.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

When will it be enough?

When they aren't losing money? They wouldn't unleash an optics nightmare for a few more dollars. Only answer is not enough people bought Nitro and with attitudes like yours, it makes sense.

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