Discord's first real foray into ads seems minimally intrusive.
  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
    413·
    2 years ago

    “Choose not to engage with them…”

    No. The first time I SEE an advertisement, I’m removing Discord and telling my friends to find other paths. Fuck greedy morons selling my time against my will.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      22·
      2 years ago

      Exactly! Ads are designed to force you to engage with them. Even noticing the ad at all is engaging with it, and they’ve got teams of psychologists figuring out how to make that second of engagement influence you.

      People who dismiss the influence of advertisements seem to forget that companies wouldn’t spend a combined $615 billion globally every year on something that people can just “choose” not to engage with.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
      115·
      2 years ago

      Would you pay for Discord? That is the problem everyone thinks everything is free but running stuff costs money.

      • PenguinTD@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 years ago

        I paid and still get peppered with their promotion. So I stopped paying, then if it gets worse I will uninstall and use the web app as you can block elements with the ad blockers. (so even site hosted stuff you can single out elements to block. )

        edit: yeah, unfortunately I can’t really just stop using it entirely, until my regular group server and some of the game’s server move somewhere else.

      • vonbaronhans@midwest.social
        4·
        2 years ago

        I’ve paid for Discord Nitro for at least a few years now. Primarily I wanted to do my part to stave off exactly this sort of thing.

        This feels bad. I don’t like this whatsoever.

      • dblsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        2 years ago

        I’m donating 5€/month to Signal because as far as I’m concerned they’re doing good work.

        I wouldn’t pay for Discord.

      • fuego@lemmy.ca
        21·
        2 years ago

        I don’t have to pay to use Matrix/Element.

        Also, how much money? Their entire purpose is to maximize profit. It’s not about keeping the lights on.

    • Nevrome@lemmy.ca
      6·
      2 years ago

      Sucks because yeah, we’re now used to being on Discord by default. Makes me miss the TeamSpeak/Ventrilo days.

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
      33·
      2 years ago

      I am in 25+ Discord servers for various topics/projects, and sure speaking to friends is one of them and we could migrate away, but that’s about 5% of my Discord usage. What am I supposed to do about all the others? I don’t have a choice in what platform a given thing has chosen to use. Sure I can just refuse to use it, but then I’m just cut off from the communities I’m part of, which is a much worse outcome.

      So what’s the solution? “Just delete Discord, and with it half of your social life” doesn’t sound great. I would love for everyone to migrate away, but they aren’t.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      57·
      2 years ago

      I mean, it is a free service that costs you nothing so they have to cover their costs somehow

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
        11·
        2 years ago

        I’m a developer and see their stories about moving databases and it’s quite cumbersome at their scale. So there are real costs and covering those costs aren’t always easy. Most people don’t want to pay. Not sure what the alternative is either.

    • BudgieMania@kbin.social
      12·
      2 years ago

      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.

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          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.

    • Rogers@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          Hi! You know one now. There are several people in my small server that either pay for Nitro, have bought profile decorations, or both.

    • Rogers@lemmy.ml
      12·
      2 years ago

      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!

    • fuego@lemmy.ca
      41·
      2 years ago

      I think Matrix/Element is the proper replacement for Discord.