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Discord is rolling out global shortcut support (e.g. Push to Talk) on Wayland for Linux users, live on Canary now and stable next week. (europe.pub)
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[–] 2 points 23 hours ago (17 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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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours 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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  • [–] 14 points 13 hours ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours 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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  • [–] 0 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

    Good for you, but you see, other people are what's known as "not an asshole"

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

    How is refusing to install spyware on my computer being an asshole? You must be young. You'll get to an age where you realize having principles and sticking to them makes life a lot more bearable than being a pushover.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (4 children)

    Dog whatever. This is pretentious as fuck. I'm 34 years old so not exactly young but I have dozens of IRL friends in a few different parts of the country that the only way I keep in touch with them is via one discord server. I'm not about to just abandon friendships over a line in the sand like this. It's not as easy as people make it out to be to just get them all to switch to matrix. There's also a lot of "friends of friends" in there so it'd be extra cumbersome to get people to switch. And plenty of them are not exactly technical inclined about using computers, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (3 children)

    Do you people not have phone numbers?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (2 children)

    I just looked and there's 86 members in the discord. The channels we have are vidya games, music, TV & anime, IRL happenings, fishing, creative endeavors & self released music, news around the world, specs / PC tech posting, food, sports, I think you see where I'm goin with this. It's very active, and a 86 member group chat sounds absolutely miserable. I have discord notifications turned off, I log in every once in a while as I don't even have social media any more.

    If someone likes anime and doesn't like sports, they can tune out of those conversations all together v easily by muting a channel

    Like it or not discord fulfills a niche that goes beyond texting or social media, which I think fills the role a million times worse as it's just posting updates for some likes and random ass comments compared to conversations

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    I mean like even taking all that at face value. Do you not worry about the only way you have to talk to friends being discord? What if your account got banned? You'd have no way to contact anyone? I'd exchange numbers with a few of them atleast. Or emails. Having a backup way to communicate seems pretty important instead of relying entirely on a single service run by an unreliable company.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 minutes ago

    I text plenty of people as well. It's a good mix of close friends and relative strangers and everywhere in between.

    If my account got banned I'd make a new one. My husband has done this several times lol

    I'm not exactly tryin to sing discord's praises or anything, it has its problems as a service, especially in regards to privacy. I just think having friends outweighs being a (privacy focused) loner

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

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