"The company is going to have to find ways to monetise more aggressively" Would Discord going public be good or bad for its users? We spoke to an expert to find out
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Eurogamer speaks to George Osborn of the Video Games Industry Memo to learn about what could happen if Discord does go public.
  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    I genuinely do not know how that would change anything. It‘s already monetized thoroughly. They will just add even more ad campaign quests and stuff which you can ignore.

    • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      They can lock more features behind nitro. They can charge to run a server. They can add servers you have to pay to join. There is a ton of stuff they can do that would just make things suckier for users on the platform.

    • Credibly_Human@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      Have you not seen the world? Everything, no matter how horrific, can always get infinitely worse.

      The PIF could buy it and ban gay people. Israel could buy it and persecute people against genocide. A rich right wing billionaire could buy it and force even more nazi memes upon the youth. They could make a monetized limit to how many servers one can join that is purposefully below any sane reasonable or normal level. They could make PMs pay per message.

      There are infinite ways it can get worse. Infinite.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Until they lock it up where you can’t. Or they’ll decide on selling data and injecting ads into your convos or streams.

      In other words this hasn’t been enshittified to the max yet at all. There are new and horrible depths to explore.