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I'm not sure why I'd be installing actual Discord on Linux; I'm sure there should be an open-source fork somewhere that's less resource-hungry and less intrusive to the system... Just saying.
"fork" implies there's code to fork
Nobody wants to use it, but if all your friends use it and you want to talk to them, you kinda have to
I moved my community to stoat. Early development so it's quite jank as fuck, but so was discord when it was new.
Stoat has had plenty of time to fix those bugs but rather would focus on nonsense that nobody needs