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minus-squareeatyourglory@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoThis was because Skype’s file transfer was Peer-to-peer, so it wasn’t Skype itself hosting the files. While discord is actually hosting the files, which is much more costly.
minus-squarehypertown@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoWell discord could offer P2P option with no limit…
minus-squareclb92@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoBut then they can’t force you to get Discord Nitro.
minus-squarehypertown@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoThis could be a nitro feature though
minus-squarejalkasieni@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI’m guessing they don’t do it because it would take about 5min before people have written filesharing bots like the IRC XDCC bots of old.
This was because Skype’s file transfer was Peer-to-peer, so it wasn’t Skype itself hosting the files. While discord is actually hosting the files, which is much more costly.
Well discord could offer P2P option with no limit…
But then they can’t force you to get Discord Nitro.
This could be a nitro feature though
I’m guessing they don’t do it because it would take about 5min before people have written filesharing bots like the IRC XDCC bots of old.