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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@programming.dev 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 points 2 years 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)

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] technom@programming.dev 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years 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@programming.dev 4 points 2 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).

[–] elint@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What is your recommendation to use instead?

[–] technom@programming.dev 4 points 2 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.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago
[–] ArmainAP@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Github/Gitlab/Gitea per repo and project issues?

[–] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 19 points 2 years 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?

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should be the change that you want.

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

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Empty of my social circle, obviously.

Ask people to use it. Worked for me.

[–] Gymcap@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Webcord on Flathub is cool

[–] unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years 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@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

What's the relationship between Microsoft and Ubuntu now?

[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 1 points 2 years 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.