We need more peer to peer hosting

Your phone number is tied to your identity, there are no reasons to ask it to begin with.

Signal is centralized and require a phone number to register, it’s not private at all.

It’s not much work and it’s a good investment it’s also not as bad as you may think because there’s plenty of enjoyment in learning and understanding stuff

I’m simply suggesting new comers to learn how this place works. If people get scared over how a software works it’s even more evidence that we need to help them understand.

Whatever nefarious stuff they’re doing isn’t more valuable than 20 minutes of my real world time.

I’m not sure if you are trolling. 20 minutes is a random number we pick up it probably take even less and 20 minutes is not really much time, we waste more time doing more useless things

Nobody is forcing you but you should really consider investing 20 minutes in learning how lemmy is different. You may think it’s not that serious but look at where popular centralized platforms are heading to, now that bad actors are taking full control the problem cannot be ignored

For anyone new: consider investing 10 minutes to learn how lemmy works and why decentralized and open source is better than proprietary and centralized platforms like reddit.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/index.html

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

element

Top posts on this sub are currently about discord and nvidia…

Don’t use discord it’s like reddit

People won’t like it to hear but let’s face something: if your reasoning to keep using a proprietary system that violates your privacy and belong to a evil company is because you have to play videogames your intelligence and self control is that of a child.

I’m gonna add something nobody mentioned yet: you can easily get hundreds extra filters on gimp and krita by installing G’MIC (already installed in some version)

Also get your hands on blender and stable diffusion

ask Jason Citron

Did you actually read anything or are you just set to rage mode?

Yes, did you? They are trying to claim something as stupid as that discord doesn’t sell your data.

Discord is not as good and accessible as you may think. Most matrix homeservers aren’t going to ask you for phone verification, some don’t even require a mail. You can always join yourself and find other friends there.

You are here on lemmy on a linux sub trying to defend a proprietary company who makes billions stealing kids data. Take a break and think about what you are doing with your life.

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html

Calls and video chats works just fine in matrix and client like element allow you to integrate other services if you don’t like the default ones.

I’d definitely describe myself as a Discord power user

You sound a lot like someone who use windows. We are on a linux sub.

Show them the link and encourage them to move to better platforms

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

Show them the link and encourage them to move to better platforms

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/