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

• 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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      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mostly pay to support them, and I get a few fun but completely unnecessary perks for it…

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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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