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[–] 54 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)
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    [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

    I haven't used discord for a couple of years. got an email yesterday informing me that unless I log in soon, my account will be deleted.

    ...oh no

    I'm going to let them delete it, saves me having to

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Deleted my reddit account only to find my comments were still there. So I'm guessing Discord messages will still be there - I wonder what happens to servers with no admin.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    They just stay up, but nobody has access to the controls anymore, the admin account shows as "Deleted User". I know this, because the server my late friend hosted, is still up, even though their account got nuked couple years back.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    I don't want to leave "my" server in an unalterable state but at the same time I don't want to encourage Discord use though my action (assuming I ever log in again, need to say how to contact me or say bye).

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  • [–] 19 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    That only took a decade to get done. Good job!

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    To be fair, it wasn't the fault of Discord this time. The Wayland developers took their time, because they couldn't agree (until now).

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    The global shortcuts portal is four years old.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    It wasn't finished and final about one or two months before. They were discussing the global shortcuts portal for about 10 years, with different portals and revisions, and they just couldn't agree on. Now its official and final recommendation. Some desktop environments used some draft versions, and everyone did it in a slightly different way, so that it wasn't a real standard yet. And many other window managers or desktop environments didn't even attempt it. Therefore many tools didn't use the half baked portal and chaos everywhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    They were discussing the global shortcuts portal for about 10 years, with different portals and revisions, and they just couldn't agree on

    That's just complete made up nonsense.

    Some desktop environments used some draft versions, and everyone did it in a slightly different way, so that it wasn't a real standard yet.

    That's not how anything works. An API getting further refinements and improvements - almost exclusively in documentation - doesn't make it "not final" or "not a real standard".

    And many other window managers or desktop environments didn't even attempt it

    Some niche WMs not suppporting an API doesn't matter to most app developers.

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  • [–] 46 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

    Can't wait to see how this will result in another massive leak of personal data that they totally don't retain.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

    What has this anything to do with leaking personal data? This is about the global shortcuts, that can be used while your operating system focus is on another application. This is a long standing issue on Wayland and just recently got solved I think. And Discord being one of the first to make use of this new Wayland "feature" is absurd (in a good way). So I don't understand where you coming from with this statement.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

    What exactly do you want tell me with that? I should search for data leaks through a search engine? This does not address my point whatsoever. We are talking about global shortcuts protocol from Wayland here, has nothing to do with data leaks: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.GlobalShortcuts.html

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  • [+] -6 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    "What exactly do you want tell me with that? I should" click on those links?

    I'm guessing their point was to do with the 1st word in the title of the thread.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (4 children)

    But your link does not address my issue, you are talking about data leaks. But the global shortcuts on Wayland has nothing to do with Discord dataleaks that happened in the past. You are conflicting two different topics here. Click the link I provided (its not a search link, its an actual result) and read through to understand what global shortcuts are.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    I'm not qualified to address your issue.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    This has nothing to do with data leaks. Global shortcuts just mean that if you focus on a different application, then you can still control the application in background with shortcuts like Ctrl+1. That's all. This changes nothing about data collection or data leaking.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Bro. Stop. It's called mockery. A joke at the expense of others. A denigrating remark to the detriment of a person or entity, often (but not necessarily) based on real observations.

    Obviously, global shortcuts probably won't leak personal data, I'm not a fucking moron. But Discord has had several high-profile massive data leaks, with some, frankly, bullshit official responses. It's fun to mock them by assuming there will be another.

    I guess I'm sorry that your life is bereft of whimsy.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Still please don't use it to host your source code. Or to communicate critical info.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago

    Wouldn't want that malware on my machine. So sick of every online community default to the shithole that is Discord.

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  • [–] 94 points 4 weeks ago (16 children)

    I'd recommend Stoat because they won't rape you for all the personal data they can.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

    App looks very similar too. But friends, other devs and communities aren't using it. Their privacy agreements seems to be much better than Discord, especially because their servers are located in Europe. But one should still understand this is not entirely private either. Note, I am not dunking on this service, just want to remember people to read privacy notices:

    We do use certain service providers to process your data on our behalf.

    Law & Order: We may disclose your information to third parties only if such disclosure is absolutely necessary to comply with a valid legal process, protect any person from death or serious injury, prevent fraud or abuse, or protect our rights, property, safety and interest.

    If you wish to request deletion of any information stored on our servers ... Exceptions apply for the third-party service providers used to process your data as described in the service supplement.

    We may also process your personal data to comply with our legal obligations, to protect our legitimate interests or the interests of others.

    - https://stoat.chat/legal/privacy

    An alternative could also be Matrix, which at least is decentralized: https://matrix.org/

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    True story: one weekend I convinced my friends and family to try Matrix instead, and within the first day of using it someone spammed them with CSAM. That was the last of trying Matrix.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    This is horrible, but its not like a Matrix only issue. I used Matrix a few times, but stopped because most people aren't there. Never had an issue like CSAM or similar. In example someone got hacked by an exploit in the Linux Kernel. Does that mean everyone should stop using Linux?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I just simply can't and won't ask friends and family to try it again after they experienced that.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    Don't get me wrong, I understand your situation. It's also embarrassing and traumatic, especially because you had experienced it yourself. I just meant this in general, that people should not be afraid of trying Matrix, because YOU had these terrible experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 child)

    That was a coordinated attack that happened for a brief period. As a guy who runs his own home server, trust me when I say it was a nightmare for all involved.

    That's over, now that there are strong protections in place to prevent those sorts of attacks.

    Also, if you're trying to just use something between friends and family you can always turn off federation (E.g. Have matrix act just like the alternatives where you have one network and are only communicating with local accounts).

    So glad I don't have to wake up every morning and purge all remote media from the prior evening 😂

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Yeah, it's worth remembering that something similar happened on the threadiverse a while back. I think there is now some automated detection and removal enabled for most significant instances.

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  • [–] 48 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    I'd recommend Fluxer over Stoat. Seems to be gaining more users and traction in a fraction of Stoat's time.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago*

    I recommend Haven if your focus (!) is self hosting. Just a single container.

    Chatto is also quite interesting (especially architecturally), but I dislike event sourcing without ability to technically prune old stuff. Also it’s closer to Slack than Discord.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    then where’s stoat.sdf.org? 🤣

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    Wow, I can't wait to never install it

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    I'm so confused. I am on KDE Wayland and have been using push to talk for like a year now. What even is this?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    The ability to use push to talk while Discord is not the focused window.

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    It had been working for me until it somehow didn't. Not quite sure why. I did had to setup KDE to allow global shortcuts for Discord but that no longer seems to be working for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    Maybe it previously only kind of worked depending on setup? I remember I had trouble and I think I remember implementing a "fix" but at some point it stopped working for me.

    From what I understand, what they're doing now will work on all systems.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    too little, too late

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'd rather stick with vesktop thanks

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    When I need to check something on Discord I do it with a browser anyway, I tried installing it on linux but every time I would run it I would get a demand to manually install a new binary because there was an update, and I don't want it having that level of access to my computer anyway.

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    Wow. Amazing! I use it in a browser when I need it then close the tab when I don't, you know, like a reasonable person? I am not installing more Chromium to not only spy on me but literally also tell everyone what I am doing unless I go out of my way to opt out (the toggle will just turn back on whenever it feels like it).

    I bet they did some dumb shit like subscribe every single QWERTY 101 key.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Meh, I already have a global mute shortcut. I have a keyboard shortcut for this script I found somewhere that toggles mic audio capture in ALSA.

    #!/bin/bash

    mic_on=$(amixer get Capture | grep '\[on\]')

    if [ "$mic_on" = "" ] ; then

    amixer set Capture toggle && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-added.oga

    else

    amixer set Capture toggle && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-removed.oga

    fi

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    How do you even release a voice chat app without push-to-talk capability?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    does screen share work on Wayland yet?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    It does for my setup. I'm on a not too crazy install of Arch with KDE for my DE and I have discord installed with flatpak. It's been at least 3 months with no issues for me.

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    [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    Been waiting for this for a long time.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    Wow and to think I could have gone without knowing that and that it would have had absolutely no impact on my life whatsoever. Crazy. Makes you think. About burritos or something. Certainly not about Discord on Linux though.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    I can't imagine the venn diagram of people who still use discord and people who game on linux has that much of an overlap does it? Like cmon it's got to be the worst possible of all the options. You'd be more secure sending a plaintext email to someone.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    The thing is that everyone else is on discord. So you dont have a choice

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I mean you do. I don't use it. If someone wants to use it I say I don't have it and make them use something else.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    Most of my friends discord is my only way of communication lol

    I also organize tournaments for a small community sometimes and I'm not getting all those people to install something else that does the same job but probably worse.

    This works only if you do not have many internet friends. I also really don't have an issue with discord usability wise and their ultimate implementation of age verification is practical even if I disagree with doing it at all (but it seems to be politically popular sadly).

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    Most gaming communities are on Discord. I game on Linux, and we don't use Discord in my friend group, but I am still in tens Discord servers. I don't get to choose where these communities are. There are even several non-gaming-relating communities I am part of that primarily exist on Discord.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'm one of them lol. Hate discord but there is no choice if i wanna play with friends.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Are these friends who you know well? If so why can your entire friend group not move to a different solution together? Do they refuse to?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I couldn't even name a alternative solution besides teamspeak 😅 And team speak was dead for years, no idea how their reboot is currently doing. But even if there are better and free solutions, people use what's convenient to them. There is zero reason for the billion WhatsApp users to not switch to signal, still most of them never even think about switching.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    "people who still use Discord" is virtually everyone in my experience

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I am quite curious what the mechanism for that will be

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