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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 97 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I'd recommend Stoat because they won't rape you for all the personal data they can.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'd recommend Fluxer over Stoat. Seems to be gaining more users and traction in a fraction of Stoat's time.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago (8 children)

App looks very similar too. But friends, other devs and communities aren't using it. Their privacy agreements seems to be much better than Discord, especially because their servers are located in Europe. But one should still understand this is not entirely private either. Note, I am not dunking on this service, just want to remember people to read privacy notices:

We do use certain service providers to process your data on our behalf.

Law & Order: We may disclose your information to third parties only if such disclosure is absolutely necessary to comply with a valid legal process, protect any person from death or serious injury, prevent fraud or abuse, or protect our rights, property, safety and interest.

If you wish to request deletion of any information stored on our servers ... Exceptions apply for the third-party service providers used to process your data as described in the service supplement.

We may also process your personal data to comply with our legal obligations, to protect our legitimate interests or the interests of others.

- https://stoat.chat/legal/privacy

An alternative could also be Matrix, which at least is decentralized: https://matrix.org/

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[–] dusk@piefed.social 56 points 5 days ago (5 children)
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[–] zemo@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Wouldn't want that malware on my machine. So sick of every online community default to the shithole that is Discord.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Can't wait to see how this will result in another massive leak of personal data that they totally don't retain.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Still please don't use it to host your source code. Or to communicate critical info.

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[–] ulkesh@piefed.social 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That only took a decade to get done. Good job!

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

To be fair, it wasn't the fault of Discord this time. The Wayland developers took their time, because they couldn't agree (until now).

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd rather stick with vesktop thanks

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Does PTT work on vesktop? Because I cannot make it work there

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

No idea, I just don't wanna touch the unmodified version cause it's got so much spyware and unwanted features, which vesktop let's me turn some of those off

[–] Sebeck012@feddit.nl 8 points 4 days ago

Wow, I can't wait to never install it

[–] determinist@kbin.earth 22 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I haven't used discord for a couple of years. got an email yesterday informing me that unless I log in soon, my account will be deleted.

...oh no

I'm going to let them delete it, saves me having to

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[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I'm so confused. I am on KDE Wayland and have been using push to talk for like a year now. What even is this?

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Discord is rolling out global...

Goddamnit, what bullshit are they doing now?!?!

shortcut support (e.g. Push to Talk) on Wayland for Linux users

Oh... Well we got good news for once

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Wow. Amazing! I use it in a browser when I need it then close the tab when I don't, you know, like a reasonable person? I am not installing more Chromium to not only spy on me but literally also tell everyone what I am doing unless I go out of my way to opt out (the toggle will just turn back on whenever it feels like it).

I bet they did some dumb shit like subscribe every single QWERTY 101 key.

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