P2P is the answer, Matrix has been doing this for a few years
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rbesfe@lemmy.ca 11 months agoBandwidth isn’t free, they gotta make money somehow
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 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”.
lambda@programming.dev 11 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…
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 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?
lambda@programming.dev 11 months ago
You can feel however which way you want. But, comparing it to paid services isn’t fair…
Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I think the difference is that when you pay discord, they stop advertising to you.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 11 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
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 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.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because you are still paying the streaming service, and then they serve you ads.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 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.