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
    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?