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Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Oh awesome, I’ve been using the webcord version as the others were all shit for screen sharing. Having said that even webcord also has weird sound issue sim hoping are fixed with this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been screen sharing from discord on hyprland for months, it wasn't already working?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Last I checked I could only share specific windows, not the whole screen. Later there was also an update with a window or screen selection dialogue that didn't work at all, I think. After that I stopped using it on wayland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I regularly share my whole screen

I have an issue with the dialog box popping up multiple times but that's it, still works

The only caveat is window specific sharing often doesn't work because of how Wayland works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i think it works for you because you have xwayland video bridge installed

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When do they stop selling user data? Next patch?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spacebar doesn't even do voice calls does it? Let alone screen share

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yea Its not perfect, but hopefully on the way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

It's not ready for most people unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Nice! Thank you

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

they say they dont sell any user data, although i have my doubts about that

[–] AnAmericanPotato 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It doesn't really matter if they do or don't. What matters is that they can change their TOS at any time, they keep an archive of all historical data, and you will have pretty much no recourse no matter what they decide to do with it in the future.

Who knows what will happen to Discord in five or ten years?

They might get bought by a narcissistic billionaire.

They might sell all their data to Google for training AI.

They might go bankrupt and sell off their assets to the highest bidder.

They might have an IPO and begin the usual value extraction at the expense of their users.

I know, I know...crazy ideas, right? When has anything like that ever happened?!

[–] refalo 1 points 1 day ago

all of this is true with literally any company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i think you're totally right, i just dont like people saying theyre doing it right now.

Frankly i think we should use matrix instead, but it just isnt good enough yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They also recently implemented E2EE for calls.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (34 children)
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[–] [email protected] 164 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (24 children)

I was almost convinced they were keeping this broken on purpose, it's been broken so long. Like, years long.

It was broken so long I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if news surfaced that Discord was taking back-handers from Microsoft under the table to keep it broken. With steam working so well on Linux now, broken discord streaming without actual working audio share was one of the last things that posed a hurdle for gamers ditching Windows.

(In the meantime, thank you Vesktop for your service <3)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Took them long enough

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (5 children)

But still doesn't accept my legitimate phone number, which is mandatory now.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 days ago (6 children)

And yes, vesktop did it first, but discord's version is quite a bit more polished

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