In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

  • @LWD@lemm.ee
    39•8 months ago

    There’s also privacy issues with Matrix:

    • Account deletion on Discord: username becomes [deleted]
    • Account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username
    • GDPR-compliant account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username

    Discord is also one (admittedly very lousy) company, while Matrix starts with the privacy issues and just gets worse

    Edit x2: I can’t place a parenthesis to save my life

      • @LWD@lemm.ee
        26•8 months ago

        Right after you promise to convince all their moneyed interests to accept those changes into the repositories they manage