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People like the Discord app, for now. Of course it will eventually go the same way new Reddit did and as every social media platform does.
by whywhywhywhy 3y ago
People like the Discord app, for now.
Of course it will eventually go the same way new Reddit did and as every social media platform does.
- mrweasel 3y agoExactly, I have no beef with Discord, but it's the same funding model as the rest of them and that's the part that's broken. Reddit for its part could have contacted the 3. party developers and asked them to switch to a model where users authenticate with the API individually and billed the users of the apps individually if it's a cost issue. They didn't, because that's not actually the "problem" they are trying to fix. The majority of Reddit users don't care though, just as the Discord users don't care that search engines can't find the content. Louis Rossmann was right, the Reddit blackout is a joke and Reddit has already won. The people who are moving is the minority and perhaps not worth much in Reddits ad financed doom scrolling reality. It's a weird time where things that could be a service would rather sell ads, things that should be a standard alone products is a subscription and the products that used to be ad supported is dying because ads space is cheap.
- noirbot 3y agoI do think Discord has a better story when it comes to it being able to monetize cleanly. They have clear and useful features to sell, and have done so decently successfully as far as I know. It's not to say that they won't get worse, but they seem to be starting from a better baseline understanding between them and their users about what's on offer. They've also just got a better baseline product and seem to be taking better care of it than Reddit ever did.