cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13807777
Discord to start showing ads in-app this week - Dexerto
In early March 2024, Discord revealed that “sponsored quests”, or ads would be added to the platform to help “support game developers” through the popular chat app.
Discord didn’t initially share a release date, or even how they’re going to implement ads into Discord’s overall design, other than mentioning that the sponsored quests would “tastefully” be integrated.
A report from The Wall Street Journal claims that Discord’s sponsored quests will be landing on the platform this week, and will be displayed at the bottom left of the app.
Matrix is so laggy to join servers… or maybe it’s my instance I don’t know. But everything feels sluggish
Matrix is essentially like a car built by the neighborhood and discord is a mercedes benz.
You can absolutely see a difference but one is made by your buddies, for you with no ulterior motives and the other one basically has a kill switch operated by the manufacturer and listens in on your conversations while driving.
Joining rooms, especially bog ones, takes time. Everything else should work fast. Especially matrix.org is insanely slow because its a crazy large instance operated at a loss.
What people need to get is that discord is not a free service. It is an ad delivery network operated for profit.
Instead get one friend to host a matrix instance for your group and you‘re golden. Otherwise you should now be able to rent an instance for small money.
There is no such thing as free lunch.
Yeah I agree thanks