Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update::undefined

  • mememuseum
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    866 months ago

    I don’t pay for Nitro but I don’t have a problem for people that do. Servers aren’t free so it’s that or ads.

    • LUHG
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      636 months ago

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

        • deweydecibel
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          -26 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.

      • @silverbax
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        6 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’.

      • Max-P
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        116 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.

        • @Zak
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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.

          • @[email protected]
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            76 months ago

            Yep. Don’t pay? You aren’t really giving up any actual functionality, just some fun things that don’t have much of any impact on the functionality

          • deweydecibel
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            56 months ago

            Give it time. We all know why we’re here on Lemmy.

          • Zagorath
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            6 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.

            • @[email protected]
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              86 months ago

              I mostly pay to support them, and I get a few fun but completely unnecessary perks for it…

        • Elbrar
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          206 months ago

          proprietary Chinese company

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

        • LUHG
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          26 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.

      • Otter
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        76 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

        • LUHG
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          36 months ago

          Ohh yes absolutely. Disco is a privacy nightmare.

      • deweydecibel
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        36 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        If you really believe that you should sue them and become a millionaire because their Privacy Policy explicitly states it doesn’t

    • @Serinus
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      36 months ago

      I pay when it’s half off, mostly for streaming quality. Their full price is kind of insane.