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I personally wouldn't touch Discord with a 10 foot pole but figured any privacy-focused people who use it may want to know this.

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[–] popcar2 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Surely this means they have plans to fix screenshare audio on Linux, right? ...Right?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Sure, right after they implement other advanced features, such as AFK detection on Wayland!

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

It does seem like they hired someone to update their electron base so, presumably yes (you can see activity from a discord employee in their electron fork on GitHub)

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

Holy Jesus, if they actually fix that, that'd just be incredible.

[–] technom 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If any FOSS project maintainers see this, please stop using Discord for your community.

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

As a FOSS project maintainer, I provide a bridge between Discord and Matrix to give people the choice. Not everything he is comfortable with federated social media yet, and the Matrix federation specifically is not very stable.

[–] technom 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't make the reason for my request very clear. We need discussions to be archived and searchable from the internet. While Matrix is better than Discord when it comes to openness, it isn't much better in terms of searchability. Even the old Google groups were better. I would suggest something like Discourse (the forum).

[–] elint 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is your recommendation to use instead?

[–] technom 4 points 1 year ago

Matrix is one option, if you just want a chatroom, similar to IRC. An online forum, like Discourse (not discord) is even better, since it creates a searchable history of past discussions. That way, most users who face any issue with your software can solve it themselves based on past discussions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] ArmainAP 1 points 1 year ago

Github/Gitlab/Gitea per repo and project issues?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Discord sux, switch to Matrix. You will thank me later 😉

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cant fully switch if everyone still using discord

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for what? Moving to an empty platform that nobody I'm trying to communicate with uses? Then what's the point?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should be the change that you want.

Obviously, create alt accounts so that you can talk to yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did bring it up to my small group of eFriends a while back but no traction.
Even then the other groups are a lost cause, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah that happens a lot. I myself will not force my friends or family to uproot their online persona and change platforms just because I found a better alternative.

Because, I know that I'm not the only person they're using it for. They have their own social circles and I don't want to burden them to have to sacrifice or add an additional app just so they can satisfy my preference.

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

Wut? Matrix is buzzing in tech circles. I can admit that it's not very popular outside of tech and Foss, but these are the contexts we're discussing here.

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

Empty of my social circle, obviously.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 2 points 1 year ago

Ask people to use it. Worked for me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Webcord on Flathub is cool

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use the Webcord app to access Discord on Linux. It has better Wayland support and improved privacy. They are also on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.spacingbat3.webcord

[–] ericjmorey 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand how this is adding privacy.

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

Webcord blocks the tracking JavaScript

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't use Discord but this is great for Flathub. It seems that the community is coalescing around flatpak as the distro-agnostic package manager for desktop Linux moving forward. The next biggest targets should be Steam (kinda sorta official already) and Spotify.

I would imagine VSCode stays a snap only app so long as Ubuntu is now Microsoft's baby.

[–] ericjmorey 1 points 1 year ago

What's the relationship between Microsoft and Ubuntu now?

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

I don't know how slapping a sticker on a shit stain could be beneficial, but I guess it's a trusted and certified shit stain now.