Great, the app is already a hot mess. It remind me of the early internet homepages people used to make.
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God what is it with every social media app sucking hot fucking garbage despite being the most popular way to access it?. Especially if the app was bearable and progressively got worse.
Capitalism.
If only
I read about this, and you will have the ability to turn the ad's off in settings.
They are optional. For now.
For now!
Haha April fools, right? Right??
TL;DR: Currently a menu inside settings that gives you in-game reward redeem codes if you stream the game for a set amount of time. Someday, these will "show up tastefully in Discord".
Time to fire up the vent server
I knew what this was going to be before I clicked.
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Time to enter the Matrix haha... just maybe not that Matrix server.. a different Matrix server.
Join different server to well distribute the network and left matrix.org for newcommers.
Please drink a verification can to continue.
I deleted my discord account about a year ago due to privacy concerns and I’ve been tempted to make a new one a few times but this definitely won’t push me closer.
Switch to Revolt? Anyone got alternatives?
Matrix too.
The nice thing about federation is we no longer have to put up with anyone’s shit.
The annoying thing about federation is that we have to convince our friends to stop putting up with it. Not an actual argument against. I just wish I could convert everyone I follow over.
Their frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor. Some may never catch on.
frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor
Never underestimate the power of frustration lol, just start subtly dropping hints after they complain about something on their preferred app and someday the straw will break the camels back.
It's easy for people to deal with BS when they're thinking it's the same BS everywhere, but once they know that there is an app that has less or no BS like that...
Or what do I know I never build up the conversation skill tree and high AF lmao
Based
There’s no good discord alternatives with all the features unfortunately. It’s a wait and see type of thing.
RIP Discord
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If it’s to “support game developers”, I’m guessing/hoping that means the ads will only show up in the Activities feature
They definitely just wrote that to make it go down easier. They aren't running ads for games out of the goodness of their hearts