▲ 1241 ▼ Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is) submitted 2 years ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 370 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Google says storage is cheap. This is solely for profit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] corbin@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago That's not how hosting a platform works. The storage might be cheap per GB, but the database management for something on Discord's scale is a complicated and expensive feat of engineering: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages permalink fedilink source parent
[–] corbin@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago That's not how hosting a platform works. The storage might be cheap per GB, but the database management for something on Discord's scale is a complicated and expensive feat of engineering: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages permalink fedilink source parent