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I'd recommend Stoat because they won't rape you for all the personal data they can.
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2026
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I'd recommend Fluxer over Stoat. Seems to be gaining more users and traction in a fraction of Stoat's time.
I recommend Haven if your focus (!) is self hosting. Just a single container.
Chatto is also quite interesting (especially architecturally), but I dislike event sourcing without ability to technically prune old stuff. Also it’s closer to Slack than Discord.
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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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discord and twitter...
If they enjoy discord, they are likely okay with Twitter. At best you would see Discord on Bluesky.
bluesky aka blue twitter
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Can't wait to see how this will result in another massive leak of personal data that they totally don't retain.
What has this anything to do with leaking personal data? This is about the global shortcuts, that can be used while your operating system focus is on another application. This is a long standing issue on Wayland and just recently got solved I think. And Discord being one of the first to make use of this new Wayland "feature" is absurd (in a good way). So I don't understand where you coming from with this statement.
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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
Why do something yourself when someone is more than willing to do it for you!
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That only took a decade to get done. Good job!
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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Still please don't use it to host your source code. Or to communicate critical info.
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Wouldn't want that malware on my machine. So sick of every online community default to the shithole that is Discord.
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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Wow, I can't wait to never install it
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
Wow and to think I could have gone without knowing that and that it would have had absolutely no impact on my life whatsoever. Crazy. Makes you think. About burritos or something. Certainly not about Discord on Linux though.
Meh, I already have a global mute shortcut. I have a keyboard shortcut for this script I found somewhere that toggles mic audio capture in ALSA.
#!/bin/bash
mic_on=$(amixer get Capture | grep '\[on\]')
if [ "$mic_on" = "" ] ; then
amixer set Capture toggle && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-added.oga
else
amixer set Capture toggle && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-removed.oga
fi
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too little, too late
When I need to check something on Discord I do it with a browser anyway, I tried installing it on linux but every time I would run it I would get a demand to manually install a new binary because there was an update, and I don't want it having that level of access to my computer anyway.
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