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Discord announced on Wednesday that it’s experimenting with a new virtual reward system aimed at encouraging more users to engage with its interactive Discord is experimenting with "Orbs," a new virtual reward aimed at encouraging more users to engage with its interactive ads called Quests.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh boy, more pop ups to dismiss!

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you need to continue using Discord I would recommend switching to a 3rd party client that can disable a lot of the tracking and adding many useful features.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Will give those a shot.

Just use it for gaming with a handful of friends and would switch if anything else was as reliable and easy to use but with less annoyances. I haven't found an alternate that does video streaming and works with xbox, which one friend needs.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

"Discord utilizing dark patterns to increase usership"