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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

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609

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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[–] Zworf 102 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Good. I hope people will move away from it soon. I hate Discord for banning third-party clients and datamining my system for installed apps. So I've never really used it.

It does mean I'm excluded from some FOSS projects' support like Home Assistant but to hell with that :P

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hopefully those FOSS projects will gain some sense as discord becomes more shit and will leave. One can hope.

[–] ErilElidor@feddit.de 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I never understood how a chatroom took off as a tool to document stuff. Who seriously thinks this is a good idea? 😵

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 7 months ago

If a project only has Discord for support (no docs, no bug tracker), I'm not using it. Don't want to deal with trying to find anything in Discord.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago

Most projects still haven't left GitHub...

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 months ago

ideally such changes to advertising and the ToS arbitration clause removing consumer rights will help give a lot of the open-source communities a gentle push to get off of discord. It's become far too central to too many communities and is impossible to search for knowledge.

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

I've only ever used it in browser to limit what it can see on my machine. I was told by one of my coding professors that one of the signs of a virus is if it monitors what apps you're running, I've been cautious ever since of anything that does that (obviously it isn't the only sign and isn't instant virus bin, like I have an app that monitors GPU usage and throttles apps to keep from cooking my machine)

[–] Diotima@ttrpg.network 3 points 7 months ago

Don't forget that it saves even your deleted DMs for as long as you have an account!

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 7 months ago

People will move away, sure, but to another proprietary service that'll do the same thing in a year or two.

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