Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update

• LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I swear Lemmy is against paying for anything. So many freeloaders in this world.

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  • Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    MSN had animated emotes for free like two whole decades ago. MSN had unlimited size file transfers two decades ago, I’ve sent entire games to my friends on MSN. IRC networks haven’t really starved for cash either.

    I pay for YouTube Premium since it came out, Netflix, indirectly I’m paying for my emails, matrix, even lemmy.

    With Discord, all your money gives you is… emotes and further vendor lock yourself into a proprietary Chinese company and looking good to toxic gamers by flexing those emotes and server boosters.

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    • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      MSN had unlimited size file transfers two decades ago

      And got discontinued one decade ago because it didn’t have a viable business model. Discord is hoping to make a profit by charging for mostly frivolous premium features, which is one of the least evil business models I’ve seen in a while.

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      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep. Don’t pay? You aren’t really giving up any actual functionality, just some fun things that don’t have much of any impact on the functionality

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      • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Give it time. We all know why we’re here on Lemmy.

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    • cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah exactly. I don’t pay for it because I don’t think what they offer is worth paying for. But I do use the free tier because it’s a pretty good service and it’s where people are. They haven’t done anything near as bad as Twitter or Reddit have this year.

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    • elbrar@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      proprietary Chinese company

      Gonna need a citation for this. Pretty sure they’re a privately-held US company.

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    • LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The unlimited file size I can understand not allowing now. Userbase and file size is much bigger although storage prices are probably on par still.

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  • cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No kidding. In a nutshell:

    “Big social media bad for stalking the internet for money!”

    simultaneously with

    “How dare they have a voluntary paid tier!”

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    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How dare a mid-sized outfit have a voluntary paid tier!

      That’s not what they said. They said it wasn’t worth the price, not that there’s anything wrong with it existing.

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  • silverbax@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lemmy and Reddit users are alwqys simultaneously saying ‘pay people a living wage!’ while also saying ‘no ads, and make it free forever’.

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea it makes sense in some cases

    Most people can still use Discord for day to day stuff without ads. The extra features are mostly cosmetic, or things like better quality video/audio, which comes with increased load

    Data tracking is probably still happening though

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    • LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ohh yes absolutely. Disco is a privacy nightmare.

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      • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        🕺🪩📸

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So many freeloaders in this world.

    Poor people crushed by insane cost of living and stagnant wage growth who can’t afford spending hundreds of dollars in subscriptions for bullshit, you mean.

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• Carter@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wrong. They sell user data.

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  • Donut@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you really believe that you should sue them and become a millionaire because their Privacy Policy explicitly states it doesn’t

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I pay when it’s half off, mostly for streaming quality. Their full price is kind of insane.

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