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
      1·
      10 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
        1·
        10 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

          • LWD@lemm.ee
            1·
            10 months ago

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