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

    We have no clue if they’re profitable since they’re private… but given they’ve laid off quite a few employees and are now scrabbling for pennies through these ads, we can only assume they’ve been, at best, net zero, and likely running a deficit ever since their inception. And interest rates have turned off the VC faucets.