Comment on Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery

• wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  … But it is, and they offer for people to pay them in order to function as such.

  “Kroger shouldnt sell groceries. 🤷‍♀️ Grow your own celery, if you intended to eat it and not sell it you shouldnt have bought it from a store to begin with.”

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  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That comparison is poor. Kroger is a store for groceries. If DropBox started saying files were temporary, I’d think that was ridiculous. Discord should have always required a third party storage solution for longer term storage. They’re a chat app. Like zoom. And zoom provides integration with cloud file services.

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    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Discord is a free chat app that offered a paid service of file storage. Because they arent actually trying to be a chat app.

      They are trying to be a community hub. A hub that offers the bare minimum for a community for free, with paid upgrades to community care, communication, interaction, and convenience.

      Which included file storage. Which is why so many people chose them for their community hub.

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      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No one likes change.

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      • worsedoughnut@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        that offered a paid service of file storage

        This is just patently false, so you’re either completely clueless or are being dishonest to stir up outrage.

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  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re beim disingenuous, discord very clearly wasn’t selling file hosting and was simply offering file transfer

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    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They literally were selling that. That was the thing they flaunted as a big reason to pay up, was the permanence of the file storage.

      If they werent aware of that, or its effect on their sales, I would be genuinely shocked. That would be like mcdonalds being surprised people wanted fries with their combo meal.

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      • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Surely you can quote where the permance of file storage “was the thing they flaunted as a big reason to pay up”.

        And no, a mere mention of increased upload sizes is not enough.

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