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