Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week - eviltoast
  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I mean, it is a free service that costs you nothing so they have to cover their costs somehow

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      7 months ago

      I’m a developer and see their stories about moving databases and it’s quite cumbersome at their scale. So there are real costs and covering those costs aren’t always easy. Most people don’t want to pay. Not sure what the alternative is either.