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Discord is arguably the smoothest experience there is, like bar none. How do you suppose it should be paid for? Discord Nitro is the least obtrusive way.
They make a massive amount of money selling user data.
We don’t sell your personal information. Our business is based on subscriptions and paid products, not from selling your personal information to third partie
I agree with other commenters. Before Discord, voice over internet was not easy. Skype, Google Meet, Vent, TeamSpeak, and that other one I can't remember the name of that we used for a while. Discord works. It works well. It might just be the most "desktopy" Internet app that I've ever used (yes more than GDocs). If you don't want to pay for things, you get ads. And the ad market has been slowly deflating for over a…
What did Twitch do?
I'm curious if the author realizes how much potential envy having access to the internet and a blog and the ability to read and write might produce in a real world caste system. To be producing content on the internet is participating in a caste system.
Ironic, that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are taking the person's use of the term ''caste'' too literally.
They should have picked a word without these connotations then.
caste: (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
Imagine comparing paying for a free service for a few irrelevant perks to a millennia-old systemic social system of oppression (that’s de facto still around, by the way). How tone deaf can you actually be? Next up: paying for Twitter Blue is slavery.
I did not infer a direct comparison, personally. To me it was more of a dictionary use of ''caste'' as opposed to an encyclopedic one. No censorship required in this case, please.