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@lemmy.world
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      6 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

  • guts@lemmy.ml
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    6 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.