Never understood why anyone would want to pay 100$ a year for discord, the paid version doesnt give you that much imo
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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.
Discord makes money by selling data, premium is just extra
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. The other benefits they add for paying are almost just bonuses to me after that.
you could also pay to host some shit like mumble.
It 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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Mumble does not look like a replacement for all the things I use Discord for.
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To support the developers and pay for a product you use all the time? Same reason you pay for any software/game.
I agree with you in principle for supporting developers directly through something like OpenCollective....
... but ask Mozilla how much their Firefox devs get for each financial donation.
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I spam 500mb uploads... it kinda makes sense to me
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
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.
Same, I call it my "shitposting tax"
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? That's weird. ^/s^
Lost yearly Nitro
You cuck.
I mean, if you’re on 4chan…
This was my first thought.
Obviously did some shit then trying to gain sympathy like omg I was banned for being nice.
- Three-year-old* account with no violations
- 5-year-old* alt account
Good on discord for actually doing something given their reputation
Given their reputation, you should question if it’s actually due to CP, or some other kind of possible political crackdown. I wouldn’t assume either way.
Usually when it looks like these people are doing their jobs for once, it turns out to be something in line with their previous shit.
I have a Discord but I hear a lot about how easily you can get banned, largely on the whims of the people running a single server, so I've always been a bit reluctant to use it.
Also, I find it genuinely disturbing how much information all these companies have about you and your stuff.
i hate discord so much my first discord account got permabanned because the owner of a server i was in went nuts and doxxed 8 year olds and my second account i got locked out for a year because they thought i was a bot and i couldnt use my phone number to verify because it was already in use on my first account then when i finally got in it had a 6 month ban because a server i was in got raided by racists that said slurs
Discord usually just uses some bullshit allegations when they feel like kicking accounts down
I have no qualms about your getting banned for this.
You are who you associate with. For example: trump associates with Epstein. Should he not be banned from discord?
So, if anyone in this thread ever posts CP elsewhere on lemmy, or even here in this thread now that you're already here, you think your acct should be wholly banned from lemmy because you are who you associate with?
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You are who you associate with.
Must be why in most democratic nations you have no freedom of association.
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