In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

    • Kroxx@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      They already can support them:

      Discord generated $445 million revenue in 2022, an 42% increase year-on-year

      They are getting greedy it has nothing to do with server cost

        • Kroxx@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          Tried to find net, didn’t find a lot of info on it but I also didn’t try very hard. If anyone finds I’m very curious what it is.