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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

They also recently implemented E2EE for calls.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

all of this is true with literally any company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

i think you're totally right, i just dont like people saying theyre doing it right now.

Frankly i think we should use matrix instead, but it just isnt good enough yet

[–] NikkiDimes 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A bear doesn't tell you it shits in the woods.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

it would if itd get sued by forest conservation groups if it didnt admit it