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.

  • guts@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Discord can do shit like this because they know many won’t ever try to use an alternative. You need more than just “open source” “privacy” or “FOSS” to convince people.

    • hswolf@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 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@lemm.ee
        0·
        4 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

  • Ilandar@aussie.zone
    1·
    4 months ago

    People aren’t going to move on. Some of you really live in a bubble when it comes to this stuff. Users complained about ads on Facebook, reddit, Twitter, YouTube and everything else and no matter how many times you guys declare those services dead the reality is that they are still the default for most. Even in the unlikely scenario that a large amount of users do permanently leave, they won’t migrate to the privacy respecting service you want them to.