Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”www.dexerto.comexternal-linkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptecnologia@lemmy.eco.br moe90 ( @moe90@feddit.nl ) Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 15 days ago message-square106fedilinkarrow-up1184
arrow-up1184external-linkDiscord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”www.dexerto.com moe90 ( @moe90@feddit.nl ) Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 15 days ago message-square106fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptecnologia@lemmy.eco.br
minus-square Skull giver ( @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ) linkfedilink57•edit-21 day ago[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
minus-square Daxtron2 ( @Daxtron2@startrek.website ) linkfedilink26•14 days 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 interdimensionalmeme ( @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilink3•13 days 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-square dev_null ( @dev_null@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilink3•13 days agoSource that they make money off of uploaded files?
minus-square Daxtron2 ( @Daxtron2@startrek.website ) linkfedilink1•13 days agoDidn’t necessarily mean the files but the service as a whole
minus-square dev_null ( @dev_null@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilink3•13 days 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.
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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.
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.
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.