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.

  • TechNom (nobody)
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    312 years ago

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

      • TechNom (nobody)
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        42 years 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.

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      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 (nobody)
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        42 years 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).

    • Dark Arc
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      92 years ago

      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)

      • ProdigalFrog
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        52 years ago

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

  • SamXavia
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    Not sure what Flathub is, seems like an NSFW site for people with no chest but good for them.

  • unix_joe
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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]
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        132 years ago

        You should be the change that you want.

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

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          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.

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            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.

      • setVeryLoud(true);
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        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.

  • Limitless_screaming
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    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.