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
    2·
    3 months ago

    There’s a huge difference between streaming games and streaming PowerPoint slideshows

    • hauiA
      1·
      3 months ago

      Obviously, yes. Whats your point?

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        3·
        3 months ago

        Telling Discord users to switch to Matrix because “it works like a charm” is incorrect, considering how Discord is used.

        “It’s tolerable if you can put up with the low bit rate and high latency” is more accurate.