I don't love this, but I use it for free. What can I say really?
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
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Would you even call these "ads"? It's more like a sponsorship or something
What would you call an ad?
The clear visual the headline is trying to convey is like a banner ad taking up space in the ui; not a sponsorship.
IRC still exists.
I think Matrix/Element is the proper replacement for Discord.
That doesn't help much. Maybe if your friend group is around 40+ years old, and has been on the net since the 90s. But it's not a comparable product. Matrix with element is the closest foss alternative, but even then it has clunky ux, and spaces are a subpar replacement to discord servers.
I wish that wasn't the case but it is. The world needs a foss discord/slack option with an open protocol like matrix. If anyone knows of any projects in progress please let me know!
i dont fully know revolt.gg 's protocol but i think its open source and basically a discord clone
Looks great! Thanks for the recommendation
On the one hand, I'm pretty anti-ad and I do my best to avoid seeing them - on the other hand I'm a game developer and this specific implementation sounds pretty cool
My friends and communities are all pretty entrenched in Discord, so I'm stuck with it for better or worse
Why is discord a business in the first place, what even is their product, my data?
The paid subscription.
I don't know anybody that uses discord and pays for the subscription. They're gonna be really sorry when they try to force the subscription stuff onto people, and it backfires.
I've seen it slowly being pushed on me in increasingly intrusive ways. So far I've been able to ignore it, but we'll see how long that lasts.
Hi! You know one now. There are several people in my small server that either pay for Nitro, have bought profile decorations, or both.
No doubt it does. especially damning if you look into the history of the founder. Discord's data is worth too much not to be used. They even have it on the ToS that they can transcribe voice calls.
Do you mean “transcribe”, maybe?
Whoops, yes
Sit down boomer.
I mean most probably yeah, but they have also been progressively locking more and more functionalities behind paid tiers.
Now that they have fully penetrated and locked the market, killed any potential competitors, and become the default, I assume their "product" will be to make the free tier become less and less functional while also getting monetized in more annoying ways. If people don't like it maybe they should have known better than to make it the default.
Unfortunate.
this is normal enshittification, we just move on to the next shit.
Yeah, I'm not gonna be very happy when I have to find a new platform to host my game jams on. Discord is where like 80% of my online interactions happen these days.
Im not big into conspiracies, but it's almost like companies are intentionally trying to deplatform regular people so they can't reach large audiences, only corporations can.
I wonder if Pi Hole will be able to block the ads.
I’ve had success with a mix of snort and pihole. Lots of ads seem to violate some RFC and snort blocks it. It’ll even break ads in the Apple TV YouTube app. You just get a black screen while ads play.
If you use an android device, like a fire stick, you can block 100% of those YouTube ads with a simple app. It doesn't break them, they just don't show up at all.
Thanks for the info!
If people accept this now, it'll only get worse. Give a company an inch and it'll take a country
Of course they will, people stuck with Windows, people stuck with Google, people stuck with Reddit, people will stick with Discord.
I know. I already bailed Discord since they personally screwed me over. This'll just be a standard roll over and take it for most people.
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