P2P is the answer, Matrix has been doing this for a few years
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rbesfe@lemmy.ca 9 months agoBandwidth isn’t free, they gotta make money somehow
netchami@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
atrielienz@lemmy.world 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago
You can feel however which way you want. But, comparing it to paid services isn’t fair…
Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I think the difference is that when you pay discord, they stop advertising to you.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 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 9 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 9 months ago
Because you are still paying the streaming service, and then they serve you ads.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 9 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.