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Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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the problem isn't switching, the problem is making all the other people using It to switch too, not everyone cares about security or ads
Go, change it! It's open source.
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FOSS does not mean there are no business interests. Think about Mozilla Firefox, Postgres, RedHat, etc.
Shit takes time bro. We're all trying not to starve to death here.
Yep most of the communities I like are on Discord nothing I can't do.
One of the interesting features about Matrix is that it supports some degree of interoperability. The Beeper phone app, for all the fuss about its ill-fated attempts to bridge to iMessage, can connect to Discord for basic no-frills text chat.
I refuse to install Discord on my phone but use Beeper for DMs and group texting.
I have happily succeeded. While there are some communities that are still on Discord, the vast majority of my friends are accessible on Matrix.