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

  • 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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      6 months ago

      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.