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Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update::undefined

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

MSN had animated emotes for free like two whole decades ago. MSN had unlimited size file transfers two decades ago, I've sent entire games to my friends on MSN. IRC networks haven't really starved for cash either.

I pay for YouTube Premium since it came out, Netflix, indirectly I'm paying for my emails, matrix, even lemmy.

With Discord, all your money gives you is... emotes and further vendor lock yourself into a proprietary Chinese company and looking good to toxic gamers by flexing those emotes and server boosters.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

MSN had animated emotes for free like two whole decades ago

And got discontinued one decade ago because it didn't have a viable business model. Discord is hoping to make a profit by charging for mostly frivolous premium features, which is one of the least evil business models I've seen in a while.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago

Yep. Don't pay? You aren't really giving up any actual functionality, just some fun things that don't have much of any impact on the functionality

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Give it time. We all know why we're here on Lemmy.

[–] elbrar@pawb.social 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

proprietary Chinese company

Gonna need a citation for this. Pretty sure they're a privately-held US company.

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The unlimited file size I can understand not allowing now. Userbase and file size is much bigger although storage prices are probably on par still.