BadgerInATrenchcoat @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat@social.privacytools.io

@Obscurequokka I don't mind it as long as I recognise the site or recognise the person running it. I'm confident enough in my setup to not worry too highly about that sort of thing, though its always important to be careful and check out the website first (if you dont know what it is) when clicking on links no matter what (starting to sound like those early 00s internet safety CDs lol).

@jubes Yeah, I've been busy so I haven't been able to play as much recently but by the sounds of it it runs better on Linux than it does on Windows. Leave it to triple a devs to make a game that doesn't support Linux run better and have less bugs on Linux than it does on the official supported OS.

@gritnot Unlikely, it wouldn't really have any benefit even if there was, though.

@jubes Hey! Not great but I don't think that's an anomaly. What about yours?

@Obscurequokka Watch TheHatedOne's video/rant/critique about it. I (and I believe many others) mirror the same or similar thoughts on it.

@Obscurequokka Hey, welcome! Dropped you a follow, hope you have an amazing rest of your day!

@gritnot I hope ProtonDrive actually turns out alright, don't really get the hype but I just want them to do well as a company even if I don't like them.

@harrismcc Yeah I used to use Keybase but dropped it so fast after the Zoom acquisition - can't and don't trust anything backed by Zoom, personally. I'd recommend Signal, Matrix, Briar, and Session as three alternatives. They all server different purposes, but they're all great in different ways.

@harrismcc Yeah finding communities is hard on Matrix, especially for people like me who sometimes like to play games with people to unwind, its next to impossible. The thing is though, the more people that make the switch from Discord to Matrix, the more communities there will inevitability be, and the easier it will be to get new people to switch. Really a catch-22 if you think about it, nobody joins because there are no communities, but there are no communities because nobody joins.

even if you click to not collect the data, its collected just "not stored." Certainly seems suspicious to me. If all of this isn't enough to make you get off of Discord then I don't know what is. This also isn't just some random guy ranting about Discord, I used their platform for years and years, met some of my best friends on there, etc, all before I knew about the things that they were doing. I switched to Matrix about 9 months ago and never looked back.

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, It contains a process logger that logs all of your open programs and browser tabs, they force many users to give their phone numbers, they have received and complied with government requests from this data, so its very plausible that all of this data is also shared to the government along with their investors and other data brokers, discord uses all of this data for advertising and sale, it doesn't respect user choice on their data

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If you're still using Discord, you should stop right now and move to a platform that is encrypted and respects privacy (like Matrix). Discord signed large deals with venture capital firms that include Tencent and many other large anti-privacy, pro-invasiveness companies, they use vague language in their privacy such as "including but not limited to", Discord is closed source and refuse to release any part of their source code, they encourage users to use and link other " spyware" platforms

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I'm all for privacy, security, federation, etc. I love mastodon, use matrix every day, hell I self host nextcloud - but if you think that any of these platforms will EVER be as big as their counterparts (matrix -> discord, masto -> twitter, etc) then you're just delusional. Again, hate big tech, tracking companies, etc, but by having so much data they have the power to propel themselves to the top and stay there, if you're a service that respects privacy and don't collect data, you're fucked.

Had the same issue, once I started using their official apk everything cleared up - so I'd recommend trying that.

@cuervo The Telegram that doesn't use e2ee by default, who uses a proprietary encryption, who alerts everyone that you've joined before you can do anything, who has had crippling vulnerabilities and bugs numerous times, that Telegram? Yeah I'll have to disagree.

@Wetrix I think that's another pitfall of Ubuntu Touch. While the "development" never officially ceased, updates are so infrequent and minor, almost all of the weight falls on the shoulders of the individual maintainers, making the experience from one device to another able to feel extremely different and disjointed.

Update:

Ubuntu Touch is still broken, janky, unstable, and lacking in apps and features.

GrapheneOS is still fast, secure, works flawlessly, has crazy long battery, and never crashes.

Welcome 👋

@magicalmilly I really don't see that many people like that. I see some gate keeping but I don't think its always unwarranted.

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