Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app

atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bandwidth isn’t free, they gotta make money somehow

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Funny how when someone bring this up for a streaming service it’s all “the ads are intrusive”, “I don’t want to pay this company”. Etc. But when it’s discord all the sudden “they gotta pay for bandwidth”.

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    • lambda@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Steaming services don’t give it to you for free with the only ads being for the premium version of their service that you don’t really need…

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      • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So what you’re saying is that since their ads are for the product I am using the free version of, I shouldn’t get irritated about them?

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    • Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the difference is that when you pay discord, they stop advertising to you.

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      • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They also stop advertising to you if you install a plugin that disables the ads, shame they’re against TOS, not like there isnt many people using them anyways

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      • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are streaming services that I pay for that have stopped advertising to me. Nitro makes it seem like I have notifications that I then have to hunt down in the app only to find that it’s them suggesting I buy a subscription.

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    • dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because you are still paying the streaming service, and then they serve you ads.

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      • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nope. They have a free model that is as supported and a paid model that is not and doesn’t have ads. That’s my point. If nitro was just a banner at the bottom of the app that would be one thing. But instead it shows up randomly as a notification like it’s a message. That’s garbage.

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  • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    P2P is the answer, Matrix has been doing this for a few years

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• DepthCharge@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought about getting Nitro once, till I noticed it was a monthly subscription

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• dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a single ad.

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