Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform - eviltoast

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.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    7 months ago

    is that they start as free and then wanted to start to make money at a later stage. *run out of VC capital and find themselves in a cash crunch

    Every free service is built on the back of free money given out by the fed over the last 20 years in terms of near-zero percent central bank interest rates. Interest rates are up which means the VC faucets are closed. Users now need to pick up the massive debt tabs and they’re gonna get ass fucked ten ways from Sunday to do it.