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.

  • Zak@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Skype certainly was. It would make an interesting case study - what drove adoption when there were established competitors with more resources?

    • kattenluik@feddit.nl
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      7 months ago

      Phone numbers, phone apps and the international market. Skype was in a lot of places only popular for business, Whatsapp was everyone’s very first doorway into a modern messenger app.