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Quoting: ArehandoroMost people will prefer to accept their fate rather than looking to move to platforms like Mattermost or Element.

I've heard a few horror stories about Mattermost, especially from bot developers, and Element is just a client for Matrix, a chat protocol that's so focused on security that they forgot to implement safety features (like banning/muting accounts and servers).

Damn, I wasn't aware of this :(

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This is gonna suck because there is no other platform that is as fully featured as discord is. Trust me, I [really looked.](https://alternativeto.net/software/discord-app/) It's always lacking some essential feature that is used regularly, like streaming, embedding youtube videos and file uploads, long term message history, etc.

Sure do hate that so many communities decided they were too good for classic forums and decided to centralize all their valuable information on a non-open internet searchable IRC. There is information about game engine development I can ONLY find on discord.

Wish Valve would hire a team to improve the group chat feature on Steam to give it feature parity with discord.

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Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.
Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.

In other words: Trust me, bro!!! It's so laughable how corporations always go ahead and tell people you can trust them, when there are entire libraries filled with examples why you can't.

Also, "in most cases", makes me laugh really hard. I'd love to hear their excuse why the materials would EVER remain in their hands after completion of the process.

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GCN Hawaiian Islands still going in 2026. AMD graphics cards on Linux can basically be divided into two categories; Post-GCN 1.0 and the before times.

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I refused to hop on the discord train since its initial rise and this is just further vindication for me.

Gamers should never have abandoned mumble which is self hostable, open source and IMO superior for the purposes of simple accessible game chat.

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I knew I would end up lamenting joining, but unfortunately there are so many interesting communities you can reach only there 😡

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Sounds good to me. If they can come up with an easy way to get Steam going, without using the Flatpak, maybe I could make the switch to KDE Linux. It would be nice to have a "purer" KDE+Plasma experience than what Bazzite offers; hopefully less drama too.

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An assessment ran whilst reading this article… turns out I'd rather not use Discord than entrust them with information I barely want to show a TSA agent

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...and my friends thought I was crazy for deleting my Discord account entirely after $USPolitics thing(s) happened and it became super obvious everything was neatly hooked up to their various three letter agencies. Then rumours of them going public with a big IPO, and we all know how the enshittification train goes when that happens.

They said the same thing when I deleted my Twitter and FB accounts, what, in 2017-2018? (Actually, FB was first - once the band I was in fell apart, no need to post shows there...)

If it's not fully open source and I can't host it myself on my own infrastructure with no hard requirement to even have working internet connectivity once set up, I'm not interested. Same for if the company behind it (*cough*Matrix*cough*) just loves the taste of boots.

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Quoting: ArehandoroMost people will prefer to accept their fate rather than looking to move to platforms like Mattermost or Element.

I've heard a few horror stories about Mattermost, especially from bot developers, and Element is just a client for Matrix, a chat protocol that's so focused on security that they forgot to implement safety features (like banning/muting accounts and servers).

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I hope this reverses the trend of open source devs using Discord as their development hangout places. A support forum is one thing (though still way worse than a real forum for documentation), but the actual development happening via Discord is terrible. "Think you've found a bug? Come tell us on Discord before opening a issue here!" - nope.

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Welp, time to spin up a Mumble server or go all-in again on TeamSpeak 6. God, enshitification really knows no limits, huh? Sheesh, what a joke...

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Most people will prefer to accept their fate rather than looking to move to platforms like Mattermost or Element.

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No.

Guess I gotta find an alternative to discord.

I am NOT going to show my papers.

Stupid governements doing stupid things so that we have this.

(yes, gov mandated age verification is stupid.)

mumble... grumble.... oh yeah, Git off'n ma lawn!!

😝

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Quoting: JarmerOMG I love this so much because it will destroy discord. YESSSSSS I ragehate discord so much so anything that takes measures to destroy it is the best thing ever.

Heh, while I don't hate Discord with the same fervor as you, I am certainly not a fan. Perhaps this'll end up encouraging more people to start adopting open platforms for online discussion, over corporate-controlled walled gardens! Though through the cynical eye of historical observation, I think it's more likely that the majority will just grumble about it and acquiesce anyway. Alas!

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Absolute bullshit. Maybe it's time to sunset this garbage platform. 🤮

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All age verification schemes are ultimately dangerous to the very people they claim to protect, because they are endangering their privacy. And everyone else's as well.

This is bad; but the culprits here are idiot (and/or malicious) politicians in the respective countries pushing for these privacy violations.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/10-not-so-hidden-dangers-of-age-verification/

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I'd rather stop using discord, than send my id and face photos to god knows who.

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Discord is the last bastion of social communication for a lot of people who have nowhere else to go, and it's sad to see it's going downhill quicker than I expected.

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I miss my Mumble server. Too bad there is no streaming support.

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OMG I love this so much because it will destroy discord. YESSSSSS I ragehate discord so much so anything that takes measures to destroy it is the best thing ever.

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Meanwhile, less than 6 months ago: [70k Discord user ID photos leaked](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo).

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Perfect for playing the old FIFA, NBA, or NHL video games 😎

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This is a great change! I almost always look through the text of the ea notes to find this info, so having it right at the top will be wonderful.

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Graham did say that while they felt Snap actually works "better than Flatpak in some ways"

Controversial opinion. I hope his mailbox is all right...

Jokes aside, I'm glad things are moving along for KDE Linux. It's not something I'm personally interested in, but I imagine it's great for KDE devs. Hopefully it's something one could recommend for those who are KDE curios (Kurious?). Maybe we'll even get to see some devices with it pre-installed in the future?

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This is great news! Konsole is also getting container integration (which was previously sorely lacking and the reason Bazzite switched to Ptyxis instead). The relevant MRs have been submitted though not merged yet. This may truly become the year of the immutable Linux 🥰

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP... but why?
Usually, malware has a specific purpose, monetary or data gathering or disrupting infrastructure.

This just messes with your mods and steam stats for a title.
Very annoying especially for modders, but beyond that I don't understand the motivation here.

Trolling.

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Great. I think imutabel distros are a key to a wider adoption of linux.

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Quoting: pbMaybe I'm stupid, but isn't it the same program? If I open Kate and KWrite, they look the same. When I open About, the only difference is the name at the top, both show the same info, including "(c) 2000-2024 The Kate Authors" (sic!). However, the kwrite binary is 4x smaller than kate, so I'm probably missing something. Maybe KWrite is like Notepad and Kate is like Notepad++, if you forgive the comparison. ;-)

A Kase of Kannibalism:
https://kate-editor.org/post/2022/2022-03-31-kate-ate-kwrite/

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Quoting: NumerfoltI have been using Kate all the time and was wondering why they would use KWrite instead. Then I opened up KWrite for the first time and thought that it should be quite a good replacement.

Maybe I'm stupid, but isn't it the same program? If I open Kate and KWrite, they look the same. When I open About, the only difference is the name at the top, both show the same info, including "(c) 2000-2024 The Kate Authors" (sic!). However, the kwrite binary is 4x smaller than kate, so I'm probably missing something. Maybe KWrite is like Notepad and Kate is like Notepad++, if you forgive the comparison. ;-)

[edit] Ok, I'm starting to see small differences, like integrated terminal and git in Kate. So I guess it's more like an IDE and KWrite is just a text editor?

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