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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] corbin@infosec.pub 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Revenue is not the same as income. Maintaining cross-platform apps and hosting nearly a decade of messages and media attachments is gonna eat into that. Also, Discord is in fact a private company.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago

Correct. I did not locate a source for their expenses or profit margin. If someone can provide, I would be happy to update.

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Google says storage is cheap. This is solely for profit.

[–] corbin@infosec.pub 6 points 7 months ago

That's not how hosting a platform works. The storage might be cheap per GB, but the database management for something on Discord's scale is a complicated and expensive feat of engineering: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages