Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” - eviltoast
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    4 months ago

    Except not, this is what social media is supposed to do, allow people to upload things to share. They’ve done perfectly well for all these years on it, it’s not some new crazy problem. It’s existing functionality they are removing, that’s on them.

    • tyler@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      Discord isn’t social media. What is with everyone just referring to every tech company product as “social media”!?

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        I use discord to keep up with what my friends are doing, look at pictures that they post, etc. We used to use Facebook for the same thing back when it was The Facebook and required a university email address and didn’t have ads. How is that not social media?

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      4 months ago

      Discord isn’t a social media. With platforms like facebook, you’re still paying for all your storage, just not with money. There’s ads all over the platform, and all your content is data mined to be sold to advertisers. Discord doesn’t data mine (to my knowledge) OR run ads. Would you prefer a higher limit at the cost of having ads all over the interface? The AWS bill has to get paid somehow, nothing is free.