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Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I‘m pretty sure Discord is already selling data of every single chat message to everyone. Especially secret services for prosecution. If they make it too shitty people will just migrate somewhere else and nothing of value was lost. It does not have the strong network effect of a Xitter or Youtube.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months 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.

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