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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

After however many years I finally joined two discord instances for some niche topics where community was hard to find elsewhere.

I haven't used IRC in a few years I admit, but I'm a few months in with discord, and so far it has never stopped feeling like IRC with a confusing interface, a gaudy new coat of paint, and emojis everywhere.

I have no idea why it's seemingly the ONLY place anyone wants to create an interactive community anymore for so many things.

[–] WayTooDank@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because its zero-effort to make a functional forum (no hosting or backend to be set up) and you have almost full control over the space / it's isolated from other communities (unlike reddit)

EDIT: I don't like discord either, but I can see why content creators and the likes would prefer it to other forums