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Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

It is, but it's not exactly a good subscription service for the average Discord user. In the past, they kept adding and removing features, trying to find stuff that stuck. While I think they've got a decent feature set right now, it's still not great, and I don't think the average Discord user would be very impressed by it.

"Pay $10/ month for increased upload size, custom emojis shared everywhere (and not tied to being used in only one server), and animated profile pics/ banners/ backgrounds!" There are other features, but I don't think most people would use them.

The biggest feature, custom emojis being able to be used in any server, is also part of their $5/ month tier, so most subscribers don't even have a need for the more expensive tier.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

I still use it occasionally. It's primarily used for smaller, more private communities, but Wikipedia also hosts official IRC rooms, too. I don't know of any other major companies that use IRC in an official capacity, though.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

They tried to do that, but it's difficult to make a decent subscription service for what's essentially a chat app.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

If I'm not mistaken, they are a private company.

Granted, they're a private company with a goal of getting an IPO soon, though.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

They tried their best to make Nitro succeed first before turning to other methods of making money.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

What's the number of Threads users compared to Lemmy? If the number of Threads users greatly outweigh the number of Lemmy users, then we'd simply be drowned out by all the Threads posts. That's part one of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Extend adds functionality to Threads that Lemmy either can't support or won't support for a while due to development time. People migrate to Threads because Lemmy is "missing" functionality. Plus, though I'm not clear on the exact legal specifications, proprietary code can be added to open-source code, and the proprietary code would be copyrighted. In other words, Lemmy devs would have to figure out a way to interact with and mimic Threads' proprietary code using open-source code.

Extinguish is when Threads' support of Lemmy is eventually dropped. The users left on Lemmy have suddenly lost a huge amount of content, and they're left with fewer users than before Threads enabled federation.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar

Ironically, Microsoft would later remove Cortana itself in an update.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar

Asking stuff like that is always a good idea, IMO. It could be the difference between a successful Linux install and a very expensive paperweight.

... Don't ask me how to install it, though. I've only tried Ubuntu as a dual-boot, and that was several years ago.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar

Yeah, what happened with GitHub?

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

but yet keep buying it.

Probably because they'll keep repairing it themselves anyway. Making it legal would just make it easier for them to repair it without triggering the tractor's version of DRM (can't remember what it's called).

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

My guess: they'll go the lawsuit route.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Who was your first?

Believe it or not, I don't think this is technically from an anime. One of the characters is (the short one), but the picture itself appears to be from DeviantArt. The other character, as far as I can tell, is an OC. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong.) Even the DeviantArt post just calls him "Anime Boy".

The short character in front appears to be a character named Tomoko Kuroki, the main character in the show "No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys Fault I'm Not Popular!" (It's apparently usually referred to by a shortening of it's Japanese title: "WataMote".)

I'm a little surprised I learned all this just from a reverse image search.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts

In the US, most TV commercials are so obviously TV commercials that they don't label them. Some TV stations do have bumpers they air when the TV show goes to break and comes back from break.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts

They're in the middle of trying to get their users to create accounts with E-Trade, their Directed Share Program (DSP) administrator. They'll start selling shares to their users as part of their DSP late next week. After that is the IPO.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts

Fortunately, at least in my experience, the adblockers usually win. Even if a company changes something to avoid an adblocker or force someone to turn off their adblocker (Hi, Twitch!), it's usually fixed within just a few hours at most.