Comment on Anon uses Discord

Butterpaderp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Trollception@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To support the developers and pay for a product you use all the time? Same reason you pay for any software/game.

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ask Mozilla how much their FF devs get for each financial donation compared to the CEO. Nothing? Damn, who woulda guessed

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    • Trollception@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The company is the heart of the software and it would not exist without the company most likely. True the execs get probably a larger share of any payments but it’s just the way the world works. It’s a piece of software produced by the company, not the developers.

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes that is the sad reality of it, but I don’t think it justifies sending money to the company in the first place. They’re backed by VC and are already predisposed to screw you financially in the longrun. Why accelerate this with donations

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• pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Which is a good monetation system. Premium users barely get anything but still enough to pay, while free users can do pretty much everything too.

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Personally, Discord has facilitated a long distance relationship with my now wife, and nearly ten years of weekly TTRPG games. I don’t mind the cost because they cannot provide that service for free forever, and I think it’s worth it for what I get out of it.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    you could also pay to host some shit like mumble.

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s cannot be overstated how much of a boon Discord’s lack of friction is for connecting with people and forming communities. It is mind-flatteningly easy to get onto Discord and into a community, and while the content of those communities is woefully unindexed deep web, forever sequestered, the external discoverability of the communities themselves is exceptional.

      You will not ever reach the same people with the same ease of use as Discord if you use a hosted alternative.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        the only “feature” that discord has is that other people use it.

        If you’re communicating with your wife over it, i can assure you the barrier to entry is the amount of time it takes to set up a mumble server, and the money that hosting it will cost. Configuring a mumble client takes like 12 seconds.

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mumble does not look like a replacement for all the things I use Discord for.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        certainly not, but it’s a solid VOIP replacement. The best one on the market.

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• Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I spam 500mb uploads… it kinda makes sense to me

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• TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  personally the $3 a month nitro is worth it for me, considering how much I use it. I know Lemmy hates anything capitalist but a coffee a month isnt that much

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I pay $30 a year for Nitro Basic. It’s only $2.50 a month and worth it to me with how much I use it.

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  • padge@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same, I call it my “shitposting tax”

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You don’t wanna pay $100 for a bunch of useless stickers and random features that don’t need to be in a chat program? Whaaaaaat? ^/s^

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