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Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
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I am in 25+ Discord servers for various topics/projects, and sure speaking to friends is one of them and we could migrate away, but that's about 5% of my Discord usage. What am I supposed to do about all the others? I don't have a choice in what platform a given thing has chosen to use. Sure I can just refuse to use it, but then I'm just cut off from the communities I'm part of, which is a much worse outcome.
So what's the solution? "Just delete Discord, and with it half of your social life" doesn't sound great. I would love for everyone to migrate away, but they aren't.
Don't choose to be a victim just because they've managed to tie a carrot on a stick.
All ears for your solution.