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.
If any FOSS project maintainers see this, please stop using Discord for your community.
What is your recommendation to use instead?
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.
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.
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).
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.
What’s the relationship between Microsoft and Ubuntu now?
Use the Webcord app to access Discord on Linux. It has better Wayland support and improved privacy. They are also on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.spacingbat3.webcord
I don’t understand how this is adding privacy.
Webcord blocks the tracking JavaScript
