Free and Open Source Software

More and more the chickens are coming to roost with the venture capitalist fueled modern internet.

So many services take the money and either reinvent a wheel or dont pretend to but offer the same service but for FREE. Then once they gain their audiences and cripple the competition they either drop all the customer first policies and start embracing anticonsumer monetization, or they raise prices so that essentially it's the same as the old industry it was "disrupting" (but like with an app so totally different).

If they dont do that, or fail at doing that, then they wind up freefalling into decline and possibly going out of business as the venture capitalists realize they waited too long before passing their investment onto someone else and got caught holding the bomb when it went boom.

That said I understand why people use discord. It's a feature rich free to use chat app that also does voice chat very well. It makes the barrier of entry for starting a group chat easy and free. It's mature software that also runs really well. I think for a lot of users they dont care if the business model is unsustainable because that model benefits them and if and when discord goes broke or starts making bad choices then they will jump onto alternatives.