Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

Technology@lemmy.world – 1221 points – 3 months ago

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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The best approach to "free" things is to understand that it's never sustainable. Eventually it will have to become a paid subscription or ad supported or both.

It will become enshittified unless that new service is open source and "free as in beer". With no profit motive, it can grow gradually and be supported by it's users. Like Lemmy/ kbin / Mastodon.

Lemmy's development is to a large part subsidized by some kind of OSS fund.

That's fine. Probably not venture capitalists that need paid back.