Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with microtransaction stores

Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by xattt on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:07AM (#36432393)

Discord gives an opportunity to self-host. It’s a little bit frustrating to do that, but also turn your own hardware into a walled garden.

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by vicktour on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:31AM (#36432734)

That must be something they added recently-ish. I wonder how walled it really is. I also wonder if they remove the arbitrary rules like the 5mb limit on files.

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by jaywalk on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:58AM (#36434201)

Can you share a link to information on this? I can't find anything.

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by xattt on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:49PM (#36435040)

I’m wrong. My friend group has a Discord server, which I assumed my buddy was self-hosting (like Mastadon).

I hadn’t used Discord in the past and was really surprised to keep seeing promos for Boosts and stuff.

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by RadiozRadioz on Thursday June 22, 2023 @01:27PM (#36435657)

I don't blame you for the confusion. Their usage of the term "server" is extremely misleading. Should have called them "guilds" or something like they do in their API.

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by anticensor on Friday June 23, 2023 @03:40AM (#36443959)

If you actually want to self-host Discord, Spacebar Chat is a third party reimplementation of the Discord protocol for self-hosting https://github.com/spacebarchat/server

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