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
    546·
    6 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
        313·
        6 months ago

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

        • umbrella
          6·
          6 months ago

          i dont use it and im curious, what interests? i tought is was FOSS?

          • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
            10·
            6 months ago

            FOSS does not mean there are no business interests. Think about Mozilla Firefox, Postgres, RedHat, etc.

            • umbrella
              5·
              6 months ago

              sure but they are usually more tamed. what is matrix doing exactly?