@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 8 months agoDiscord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”www.dexerto.comexternal-linkmessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1341cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1341external-linkDiscord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”www.dexerto.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 8 months agomessage-square144fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink39•8 months agoMost Lemmy servers don’t relentlessly track and sell everything you do though. Discord makes way more money off your data than it costs them to host.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•8 months agoSource that they make money off of uploaded files?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•8 months agoDidn’t necessarily mean the files but the service as a whole
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•8 months agoI agree, but the argument here is “why won’t they let you upload more data if they make money off of it”. My point is that it doesn’t apply here, because uploaded files is not the data that can make them money.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•8 months agoLemmy servers are radical open, everything short of your IP address is accessible over the activitypub protocol. They’re not selling it, it’s free.
minus-squareAnaslinkfedilink1•8 months agoIs there finally a source that says Discord is selling your data?
Most Lemmy servers don’t relentlessly track and sell everything you do though. Discord makes way more money off your data than it costs them to host.
Source that they make money off of uploaded files?
Didn’t necessarily mean the files but the service as a whole
I agree, but the argument here is “why won’t they let you upload more data if they make money off of it”. My point is that it doesn’t apply here, because uploaded files is not the data that can make them money.
Lemmy servers are radical open, everything short of your IP address is accessible over the activitypub protocol.
They’re not selling it, it’s free.
Is there finally a source that says Discord is selling your data?