• Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space
    2·
    1 year ago

    This news is notable because a mainstream proprietary software publisher has chosen to officially distribute using Flathub. I couldn’t care less about Discord, but it says a lot about Flathub’s mindshare. Proprietary publishers tend to pick AppImage, but this is the first publisher I know of that has chosen Flathub instead. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend.

    That being said, Cassidy obviously had a very active hand in convincing Discord to adopt the Flatpak package.

  • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Meeh, Void has it in the packages, but I don’t use it, too confusing for a messaging app if you ask me.

    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
      1·
      11 months ago

      Agreed. I keep trying to use it because that’s where Opensim’s Metaverse Alliance landed when Google Groups shut down, but it’s way too noisy. I wish they’d just settled on a proper forum site like Delphi.

  • Quik@infosec.pub
    1·
    1 year ago

    FYI There are also open source discord clients available:

    • Discordo is a nice CLI to use Discord
    • ArmCord: Full Open Source Discord client with themes, etc.
    • gtkcord4 & gtkcord 3: Both are simple GTK Clients for Discord

    Third party clients are against Discord’s terms of service, so use at your own risk.

    • Konlanx@feddit.de
      0·
      1 year ago

      What alternative would you suggest if I just want to talk to my mates while gaming? I gave up on setting up TeamSpeak after like an hour and many crashes and errors. I was a TeamSpeak fan for many years when using windows, but on Linux I highly dislike it.

      • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        There is a pretty similar looking and function called Revolt that could be useful for getting people that are used to Discord to switch. I think they also have a long goal of being able to send and receive messages and calls with Discord. Obviously they don’t have that atm, but it is open-source and nice to at least know about in the event a quick exodus of Discord is needed.

      • zShxck@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Mumble (is comoletely free software and has a better quality even than teamspeak)