no fun allowed

You can get an income for your work by many other way than getting it behind a paywall. Like another user said i'd rather download the book and send 10$ to a creator I like than paying a monthly subscription to a "digital library" that will only give crumbles to the author and prevent me from reading my book "offline".

You’re seriously blaming company for trying to make their product popular. Even if we assume that current Chrome state violates the anti-trust legislation, that’s still a pretty silly moral condemnation.

The law literally makes it illegal. No matter what you think. It’s in the tiny text of the law.

MS got hit. Apple is going to. Google should be too, but I doubt it will happen.

(I’d argue giving away Android is dumping and requiring Play is bundling, but that’s another rant)

Hard disagree. Discord is great place for non-tehnical-project communities

"Normally, rooms are silent, and no one is chatting"

Yeah, cause you went to unactive servers. It would be like coming to Hackernews, opening first link in newly submitted, and complaining that no one is here.

Just go to active servers. Servers I frequent are very active.

"The UI as a whole is a jumbled mess that feels bloated"

Another hard disagree. UI is one of my favourite things about Discord. It feels very well designed and it even works very well on mobile. I'm quite impressed by this aspect

"That is: without ads, people would gravitate towards buying what fits their needs best. They would make generally rational choices given the information available."

Not to sound snarky, būt have you met humans?If sociology and economics have shown anything, itš that human do NO make rational consumption choices

I agree with the sentiment but I’d wager the choices they make are more rational without ads than with, which is all the argument needs.

"If the reward from working is barely enough to cover the necessities, then there is technically no difference between working as a free citizen, and being forced to work as an indentured servant, other than a vague notion of freedom, which in that case is the freedom to decide between working and living on the streets."

What an incredibly privileged perspective. Do you think that actual indentured servants would agree with you on this?

Homie what are you talking about lmao. As an avid podcast listener they're full of ads

>What you gonna do?

I'm gonna use Chrome fork or previous version. Chromium is open source

>But is the time spent on that channel worth it over doing other things?

Now apply same standard to literally any other Youtube channel

peak boomer-posting

Ok Zoomer

"If you're choosing it as the sole community of your project, you've alienated folks that value their digital privacy"

so basically no one? cause almost nobody actually cares about digital privacy

I do. Hence why my discord persona is essentially made up and used as a marketing tool for my artsy hobbies, same way as my instagram profile is carefully curated to be something I'm not.