I cannot comment on the apple ecosystem, and personally don’t have any experience with other apps doing what Discord is doing with these.

I acknowledge they are ads. I suppose I have a different tolerance than you.

Granted, I already pay for Nitro so I was not aware that was a thing.

I saw Revolt Chat recommended on another post but to me it looks like early Discord that will, eventually, just head to the same place with monetization. It doesn’t have video as of now either from what I could tell.

Before everyone freaks completely out, the headline is a little bit clickbaity. Yes, they are ads, and yes they will be on mobile, so I suppose that technically wasn’t a lie. But they are probably not what you’re expecting based on reading “mobile ads” alone.

Desktop Discord has had “quests” for a little while now. You watch a thing and then get a thing. Normally it’s an in-game item, or might be a temporary discord profile frame or something.

These are optional and in my experience they’ve only popped up once a month or so. They are a mild annoyance to hide once in a while at worst and at best I have watched one or two for games I actually play.

This is that, coming to mobile now.

You may well be right, and I don’t mean to defend Discord or even the feature. I just think a lot of people here were misunderstanding exactly what it was that was being introduced to mobile.

I think people are reading the headline only and thinking this will be mandatory ad views on mobile to, like, just use Discord.

This is an existing thing on desktop already that they are porting over to mobile. It’s an optional ad you can choose to watch in order to gain in-game rewards for various games. Or sometimes a discord profile frame or something.

Looks like no video calls or screensharing? If so, unfortunately won’t be a viable replacement for me.

Also, looks like there are self hosting options but they seem clumsy? From what I read, and happy to be corrected, a self hosted instance is completely separated from the rest of the Revolt ecosystem, meaning new accounts and everything for each.

I’m also curious how they will upkeep the servers without any kind of monetization.

I mean, they do get “rewards”. Discord has been doing quests for a while now, even video ones, on desktop. It sounds like maybe this is just the existing feature coming to mobile? For example, I watched an ad for MH Wilds to get in game items.

It’s pretty strange, come to think of it. Who exactly is this convincing to buy MH Wilds? I watched it because I already had MH Wilds. So, for me, I watched an ad for a game I already bought for some items. But, why would I do that if I didn’t already have the game?

Weird lol.

White men did all the good stuff, everyone else did all the bad stuff.

Weird thing to want when people are setting your businesses on fire.

What an absolute farce.

A lot of blame on Netflix here but it takes two to tango. With a new series on the horizon and news just breaking, I’m sure Netflix was interested in keeping the series on its platform and I can imagine Paramount wanting more for the licensing.

Just gathering troops near the border for a special military operation, nothing to see here.

They gotta put people in jail to get their legal slavery. USA has always been and still is built on the backs of slaves.

Monster Hunter Wilds on desktop, and Blasphemous 2 on Steam deck.

I love how one person cites a statistic, and another person just dismisses it as false because of their anecdotal experience.

“it’s somehow worth money” is basically true of all fiat currencies. It’s worth what the consensus agrees it is worth.

(this comment should not be read as a defense of crypto)

Good start but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping for more.

My family is all in the States and told them I would not visiting for the foreseeable future and encouraged them to write their representatives about how their government’s actions are affecting their family life.

What is this from?