In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

  • hswolf
    1250·
    7 months ago

    the problem isn’t switching, the problem is making all the other people using It to switch too, not everyone cares about security or ads

    • LWD
      546·
      7 months ago7 months ago

      There’s also privacy issues with Matrix:

      • Account deletion on Discord: username becomes [deleted]
      • Account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username
      • GDPR-compliant account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username

      Discord is also one (admittedly very lousy) company, while Matrix starts with the privacy issues and just gets worse

      Edit x2: I can’t place a parenthesis to save my life

      • Jak2k
        638·
        7 months ago

        Go, change it! It’s open source.

        • LWD
          313·
          7 months ago

          Right after you promise to convince all their moneyed interests to accept those changes into the repositories they manage

          • umbrella
            60·
            7 months ago

            i dont use it and im curious, what interests? i tought is was FOSS?

            • fmstratEnglish
              100·
              7 months ago

              FOSS does not mean there are no business interests. Think about Mozilla Firefox, Postgres, RedHat, etc.

              • umbrella
                40·
                7 months ago

                sure but they are usually more tamed. what is matrix doing exactly?

        • howrar
          40·
          7 months ago

          Shit takes time bro. We’re all trying not to starve to death here.

    • Apollo2323
      80·
      7 months ago

      Yep most of the communities I like are on Discord nothing I can’t do.

      • umbrella
        180·
        7 months ago

        most of the communities period are on discord

        even the one that really have no business being in there and really should be on a forum

      • EndlessNightmare
        10·
        7 months ago

        One of the interesting features about Matrix is that it supports some degree of interoperability. The Beeper phone app, for all the fuss about its ill-fated attempts to bridge to iMessage, can connect to Discord for basic no-frills text chat.

        I refuse to install Discord on my phone but use Beeper for DMs and group texting.

    • rambling_lunatic
      20·
      6 months ago

      I have happily succeeded. While there are some communities that are still on Discord, the vast majority of my friends are accessible on Matrix.