honestly as long as the stuff that discord is monetizing stays additive instead of changing services we already use to be paid-for, I really don't mind if discord gives creators (and, by way of that, themselves) ways to generate revenue. Discord, even as a completely free service, is really far ahead of other similar platforms and offerings. I don't expect them to be 100% consumer-first at the expense of generating profits (as much as i wish it were feasible for them to be), but the ways in which they've done that so far have been surprisingly unobtrusive.
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And the enshittification continues.
But the sooner Electron dies the better, there is literally only one Electron based program that works well and that is VS Code, but you've got to blame Microsoft for being so incompetent that they never even set the standard for a desktop UI after years of monopoly that people turned to just mushing Chrome into a box.
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Or, get ready for an influx of fediverse users on Matrix?
The last feature I liked from Discord was screensharing. Everything else since has been useless or outright terrible.
And people wonder why I prefer forums. The "Discordifcation" of everything is out of control.
I never got the appeal of Discord anyway, after a while it simply becomes a dump of notifications that I cannot follow up on.
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i honestly do not care about having the option to pay for things
i consider the quality of a platform as if monetised features dont exist, and discord is still a pretty solid platform besides them
if they start monetising existing features, sure, that effectively removes features, but until then getting mad at things that simply do not affect me is silly
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