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Discord to start showing ads in-app this week - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
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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.

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[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago

Great, the app is already a hot mess. It remind me of the early internet homepages people used to make.

[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

God what is it with every social media app sucking hot fucking garbage despite being the most popular way to access it?. Especially if the app was bearable and progressively got worse.

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Capitalism.

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

If only

[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

I read about this, and you will have the ability to turn the ad's off in settings.

They are optional. For now.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

For now!

[-] floridaman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 months ago

Haha April fools, right? Right??

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 5 months ago

TL;DR: Currently a menu inside settings that gives you in-game reward redeem codes if you stream the game for a set amount of time. Someday, these will "show up tastefully in Discord".

[-] taanegl@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Time to enter the Matrix haha... just maybe not that Matrix server.. a different Matrix server.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Join different server to well distribute the network and left matrix.org for newcommers.

[-] gm0n3y@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

Time to fire up the vent server

[-] eth0slash0@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago
[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

I knew what this was going to be before I clicked.

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[-] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 15 points 5 months ago

Please drink a verification can to continue.

[-] Juice88@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

I deleted my discord account about a year ago due to privacy concerns and I’ve been tempted to make a new one a few times but this definitely won’t push me closer.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

Switch to Revolt? Anyone got alternatives?

[-] RiQuY@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

Matrix too.

[-] wyre@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

The nice thing about federation is we no longer have to put up with anyone’s shit.

[-] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The annoying thing about federation is that we have to convince our friends to stop putting up with it. Not an actual argument against. I just wish I could convert everyone I follow over.

[-] wyre@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

Their frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor. Some may never catch on.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor

Never underestimate the power of frustration lol, just start subtly dropping hints after they complain about something on their preferred app and someday the straw will break the camels back.

It's easy for people to deal with BS when they're thinking it's the same BS everywhere, but once they know that there is an app that has less or no BS like that...

Or what do I know I never build up the conversation skill tree and high AF lmao

[-] CliveRosfield@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

There’s no good discord alternatives with all the features unfortunately. It’s a wait and see type of thing.

[-] wyre@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

RIP Discord

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

U BLOCK ORIGIN ACTIVATED

[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 points 5 months ago

If it’s to “support game developers”, I’m guessing/hoping that means the ads will only show up in the Activities feature

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

They definitely just wrote that to make it go down easier. They aren't running ads for games out of the goodness of their hearts

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