• @[email protected]
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    7823 days ago

    Our mission is to create the most authentic, player-centric advertising platform in the galaxy

    Look, the quiet part, right in the open.

  • @[email protected]
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    4823 days ago

    Oh. This is their vision quest optional ad thing. Not that its great but these exist on desktop already, and can be completely disabled in settings. This post just now reminded me that they made that, I turned it off and completely forgot.

    They also say that the option to disable it will exist on mobile too. Its shitty that there are ads at all but this is about the least offensive option I’ve ever seen. Can’t promise it won’t creep out and get worse later but yeah.

    • @[email protected]
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      -123 days ago

      Its shitty that there are ads

      i mean there has to be a way to fund the business. ads are fine as long as there is a way to remove them through options or paying a reasonable fee.

      • Stern
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        1823 days ago

        The setting says “If you opt out you might still see Quest promotions, but they won’t be personalized to your activity”. I’m on Nitro Basic (The 3 dollar a month plan.) and I don’t see any method for disabling them completely.

        • @[email protected]
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          523 days ago

          I pay for Nitro yearly to the tune of $15 a month and the ads cannot be disabled, only hidden after they come up.

          So yeah, I’ve cancelled my subscription, this is only going to get worse, especially once they’re completely beholden to shareholders.

          • @[email protected]
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            122 days ago

            Yeahhh ive supported discord for about 5 years now with full nitro and if they’re going to show me ads no matter what then I’m canceling right now.

            I had hope when they rejected Microsoft’s offer. But they were just waiting for the bigger fish.

          • @[email protected]
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            022 days ago

            Huh? I’ve disabled quests entirely on my desktop. I don’t see them AT ALL.

            I’m not sure about mobile because I’m on a very outdated version.

            • @[email protected]
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              122 days ago

              I promise I’m not completely stupid, but the first time I saw an ad I went looking for ways to never see them again and came up with nothing. I’ll look again, though!

      • subignition
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        1423 days ago

        They already offer a subscription service. And on top of that they have not-so-microtransactions in their shop.

  • @[email protected]
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    2223 days ago

    What an excellent place to remind people of the Free and Open Source Element project built upon the Matrix platform.

    They, in my opinion, desperately need contributors to provide the same level of features as Discord, particularly with community and moderation features such as a landing page where users can agree with rules and terms before using the server.

    https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/

    https://github.com/element-hq/element-web

    • @[email protected]
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      923 days ago

      https://reddthat.com/post/37286760

      I like Revolt better because it’s actually designed to replace Discord. Matrix isn’t designed to be Discord, and that’s a problem, because what I want is FOSS Discord. Matrix doesn’t bring any novel features that make me want it more than FOSS Discord.

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        And Lemmy is run by Tankies, we kind of have to have faith in the ability to self-host with these platforms and make minimal compromises between them and the competitors.

  • Igilq
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    1123 days ago

    That’s why I am moving out of discord, making it worse and have less features and now adding ads to communicator. Who had this genius idea?

    • @[email protected]
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      1623 days ago

      These are the desktop ads that are already there, they’re bringing the quests (that, for now, have an off switch) to mobile

  • Libra00
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    123 days ago

    Welp, good thing I don’t use discord on mobile. We’ll see how it goes when they come to desktop.