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The developer team at Discord released a new engineering blog post yesterday (December 8th) detailing lots of fixes, along with some Linux improvements. As one of the most popular chat apps in the world, it's good to see their support of Linux continue to get better over time.

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[-] zimno@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago

Please don't install this shit on your computer

[-] DeFaced@piefed.world 27 points 3 days ago

What's the alternative then? Because I can't really think of one that's as easy as discord to stand up a server for your friends and manage access to it, not to mention audio and video with screen sharing. I guess teamspeak 3, but holy shit is it convoluted and complicated to setup and manage for the everyday user. There's gilded but fuck that shit I'm not supporting the Roblox company. Revolt is another but there is no voice chat, no video chat, no screen sharing and it's filled with sketchy people. Matrix? Sure, but it's not easy to setup and manage at all. Discord works for what it needs to do and the features it has, if there's an alternative I'm more than willing to try it out but so far there's just nothing that comes close to the ease of use of discord. Discord is also supported on both Xbox and PlayStation, Sony even owns a minority stake in the company.

[-] ammorok@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

If you are using PC, Check out Element. It does utilize Matrix, but that gives you the ability to self host if you wish. Voice and video works well enough for me and my friends to stream to the room and was a suitable replacement for Discord.

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