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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm afraid that every generation runs into this and learns the hard way. Discord isn't the first and won't be the last. The moment someone wants to become profitable, all bets are off.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I guess that with discord (and many other non-foss free projects) the problem is that they start as free and then wanted to start to make money at a later stage.

    For-profit software and companies are not necessarily bad, but they are bad when they take their existing software and start radically changing it for the sake of making more money.

    If for example discord always had some features just for Nitro users and others for everyone, and those features (and the nitro price) would have always stayed the same it would have been much better

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago*

    is that they start as free and then wanted to start to make money at a later stage. *run out of VC capital and find themselves in a cash crunch

    Every free service is built on the back of free money given out by the fed over the last 20 years in terms of near-zero percent central bank interest rates. Interest rates are up which means the VC faucets are closed. Users now need to pick up the massive debt tabs and they're gonna get ass fucked ten ways from Sunday to do it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Just a reminder that FOSS and for-profit are not mutually exclusive. Your FOSS product can be free (as in free speech, not free beer), but cost money to acquire (although once bought, you could redistribute it as much as you like, for any price you like).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yep it happened to Skype and slack.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And team speak too…

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago

    Teamspeak never died. It's always had a fairly dedicated core userbase, but it's inability to video chat/screenshare and the need to self host puts off most everyday users from getting onto it.

    it's arguably WAY better for actual video game voice chat though. faster, higher quality, less resource intensive.

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