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    11 months ago

    I swear Lemmy is against paying for anything. So many freeloaders in this world.

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        11 months ago

        How dare a mid-sized outfit have a voluntary paid tier!

        That’s not what they said. They said it wasn’t worth the price, not that there’s anything wrong with it existing.

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      11 months ago

      Lemmy and Reddit users are always simultaneously saying ‘pay people a living wage!’ while also saying ‘no ads, and make it free forever’.

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      11 months ago

      MSN had animated emotes for free like two whole decades ago. MSN had unlimited size file transfers two decades ago, I’ve sent entire games to my friends on MSN. IRC networks haven’t really starved for cash either.

      I pay for YouTube Premium since it came out, Netflix, indirectly I’m paying for my emails, matrix, even lemmy.

      With Discord, all your money gives you is… emotes and further vendor lock yourself into a proprietary Chinese company and looking good to toxic gamers by flexing those emotes and server boosters.

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        MSN had animated emotes for free like two whole decades ago

        And got discontinued one decade ago because it didn’t have a viable business model. Discord is hoping to make a profit by charging for mostly frivolous premium features, which is one of the least evil business models I’ve seen in a while.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah exactly. I don’t pay for it because I don’t think what they offer is worth paying for. But I do use the free tier because it’s a pretty good service and it’s where people are. They haven’t done anything near as bad as Twitter or Reddit have this year.

          If other people are willing to pay for the cosmetics, I say let them. If the service is able to be profitable that way, all the better.

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        11 months ago

        proprietary Chinese company

        Gonna need a citation for this. Pretty sure they’re a privately-held US company.

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        11 months ago

        The unlimited file size I can understand not allowing now. Userbase and file size is much bigger although storage prices are probably on par still.

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      11 months ago

      Yea it makes sense in some cases

      Most people can still use Discord for day to day stuff without ads. The extra features are mostly cosmetic, or things like better quality video/audio, which comes with increased load

      Data tracking is probably still happening though

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      So many freeloaders in this world.

      Poor people crushed by insane cost of living and stagnant wage growth who can’t afford spending hundreds of dollars in subscriptions for bullshit, you mean.