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Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update::undefined

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I would say of the services to give money to, Discord is on the lesser evil side.

Sure, they lock a bunch of stuff behind Nitro, but they're at least only giving people ads for their own stuff and not scams or dong pills. Because if nobody paid for anything, that money would have to come from somewhere.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Discord is also extremely data intrusive and retains the right to commercially process anything you write, post or say on there. By using it we already pay with our data, nitro is just extra skimming. I will cede that they have avoided ads for non discord related stuff, which is at least something.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Running all of the web services at scale takes a chunk of money. Even Matrix has a paid tier to cover the costs of running the servers for the paying customers. The free tier performs as expected for being free and not ad supported. It's not extra skimming if I end up with fewer annoying things in my face and some neat tricks to use when communicating with my friends.

    Giving up those rights for anything your input into a commercial Internet service is fairly standard. All that AI data came from somewhere. Not saying it's a good thing, just that it's not atypical.

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