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      6 months ago

      What’s so good about nitro that people actually pay for it? Genuinely asking.

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        If you are into emoticons, you can use custom emoticons of one server on another. If you share files, such as clips, until recently discord allowed only 8mb on free tier. Now it is 25mb, but can get up to 500mb with nitro. Video streaming is limited to 1080p at 30fps, nitro unlocks up to 4k with 60fps.

        Basically allows more bandwidth and storage on their servers, which is understandable I think.

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          Animated emojis are also nitro exclusive. And you can boost “server”, which unlocks more customizations for “servers”.

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          I have access to all that for free, except file size. If I need to send a large file I have google.

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          LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

          I would pay to not have to use discord. TIL people are paying to use it!!

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            6 months ago

            Yes hello

            I would also like for you to pay me $20 (your choice of currency)

            After you delete discord please send $20 to my lemmy account.

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            So far as I know, they’re not shoving 20 ads in your face on every screen.

            I know they’re far from perfect. Heck they have a forced arbitration clause in their ToS.

            But compared to other services lately, Discord seems to mostly be trying to treat users as customers instead of products for advertisers. I’ll take it, and get some neat conveniences from Discord in turn.

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        You get all your emotes cross server and you can upload bigger files + stream in better quality, but i don’t think any of this is really worth it.

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        I only have it for bigger upload file size. I send big files surprisingly frequently

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          Makes sense then if you get genuine use out of it. Reading your comment and other comments, I don’t really use/need any of those features.

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        I have the basic $3 one, I just call it my shitposting tax. Longer messages, using emotes in any server and larger files. I use it a lot since my friends haven’t warmed up to Matrix yet, might as well support them while its not total trash