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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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[–] sawyer@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Well thanks discord but you ruined my watch movie together night with my ex gf so.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When do they stop selling user data? Next patch?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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?!

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my fuck, finally. Good lord Discord, only took you eons to get that working with Wayland after you broke it.

I get that there's other things like Discord out there, but nothing works like Discord.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get that there’s other things like Discord out there, but nothing works like Discord.

There's plenty of free alternatives that works much better than discord

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if I want calling, video chat, screen sharing and role based chat rooms all in the same place. I've explored this, but it just isn't feature complete enough at the moment. I'd definitely describe myself as a Discord power user and Matrix just doesn't manage it.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calls and video chats works just fine in matrix and client like element allow you to integrate other services if you don't like the default ones.

I’d definitely describe myself as a Discord power user

You sound a lot like someone who use windows. We are on a linux sub.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I am a Linux user. Bizarre assumption to make given my excitement over a Wayland specific Discord feature. But I don't have any actual qualms with how Discord implements its own services. Matrix just doesn't fit the bill for me. If you enjoy it, and it suits your needs then all the power to you. It just isn't what works for me.