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Will do. I need to set aside some time to see about it working with most, if not all my devices and go from there.
I did see someone else mention elsewhere that it is possible, but I don’t remember the source.
There’s also Matrix if you don’t mind tinkering around a bit too as another option.
Yeah, I just learned about that. Really unfortunate. Seems like Stoat is the next option
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Oof. That’s news to me. I’m seeing some stuff about Stoat pop up. Guess that’s what I’ll look into next
For an exact 1:1 replacement? Yeah, I do agree about that. If anyone looking for options doesn’t mind making some compromises it opens the doors quite a bit.
I shared in another reply a link to some alternatives. Guilded seems to be the closest to a 1:1 replacement for now.
My personal concern is having to repeat this again if the next proprietary platform becomes too big. My friend group has gone through google hangouts (it was a different time lol), the curse client, which became a Twitch product eventually and then Discord.
I’m at the point where I’m considering going back to web forums and things like teamspeak/ventrillo.
For a potential 1:1 Discord alternative? The one that has stood out to me is Guilded. I started looking at alternatives last year when talk about this was starting to float around and forgot about it.
Here’s a recent article with alternatives that I found in a quick search. Don’t agree with all of them personally, but I’m not the target audience for some of them.
To quote general Grevious:
“Time to abandon ship”
There’s plenty of other options out there. Discord has been enshitifying for a while now, so I don’t mind dropping it
Five posts total and self deleted in two hours
I’m kind of for that to be honest. Will be playing it sometime over the weekend for sure
Well, I’ll admit I haven’t looked into this too much, but I do have a few that I know of.
First is a fork of Thunderbird ironically called Betterbird. Looks like it’s multi-platform. For Linux it’s also available as a Flatpak.
Another desktop alternative that I’ve known of for a while is called Evolution. This one appears to be Linux only, unless I’m mistaken.
There’s also one called geary; also Linux only. The only options I’ve found for it is an unverified Flatpak or building it yourself.
While I haven’t used it personally for Android, I’ve heard good things about K-9 mail. Can be found on F-Droid.
Remember when Mozilla was not awful?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
It’s been genuinely depressing watching Mozilla devolve into what it has become.
Recently migrated my browser of choice to waterfox for daily use and have been playing around with Librewolf too.
While it’s supposed to be more community focused, I’m considering dropping Thunderbird for other FOSS alternatives too because of its roots with Mozilla. Haven’t pulled that trigger yet though
I think this is the best middle ground solution at the moment. Limiting the amount of posts that can be spammed would act as a deterrent for whoever keeps creating accounts and deleting them within a few hours.
As a bonus, if possible; limit only accounts less than X days old to that timeframe (this would allow people who actually want to post and keep their accounts the freedom to do so without restrictions).
I was starting to group together my older computers for potential recycling, but they’re now going to be repurposed after thorough testing. Not a fan of where big tech currently wants to go
What an absolute non-answer Moore provided.
Remember which companies are pulling this nonsense and boycott them going forward.
Yes. The absolute worst is in the lobby at a doctor’s office. It’s quiet and then filled with whatever video stream they decide to play.
I’ve started carrying my headphones with me to drown out those situations, especially if I know it’s going to be a long wait.
Since everyone will likely give you varied answers I’m going to recommend this list from Protondb.
You can also see what Valve recommends here for another good batch of games.
Me personally, I’ve had great luck with Indie games, Story heavy single player games like Dispatch and for multiplayer, I can guarantee that Helldivers 2 works.
Oh, cool. It’s possible it’s just the version of proton it’s defaulting to if multiple games are crashing.
For X-Plane 11 I would look at what’s listed here on Protondb for a potential fix. More that likely you’ll find the answer you need there.
If that doesn’t work, you could also try installing additional versions of Proton (Glorious Eggroll usually contains fixes that in my experience, just work). You should be able to install them from the Discover store. For that I recommend ProtonPlus if you don’t already have that installed.
And no apology necessary! Gaming on Linux can be frustrating at times. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a game of mine struggle to run, but before Valve released proton it was a massive headache.
Hope that helps get your game running!
I’m going to second this.
What are you using to try and get the game to run? (Wine, bottles, Lutris, Steam, Heroic, etc)
What game are you trying to play?
I definitely get what you’re saying on that. Leaving behind communities that you’re a part of, potentially for years or longer, is not appealing.
The sad reality is that is where each individual person will have to weigh their options and beliefs.
For me personally, I’m already down to just a few personal communities on Discord and for the one that I run, I will be migrating to either something like Stoat, Matrix or even a good old fashioned web forum. This all stems from not trusting Discord with my personal information, which works for me. Obviously not a one size fits all situation.
It would be nice to see Discord realize that they’re making a huge mistake and backtrack the decision, but I don’t see that happening.
Perhaps this will lead to communities migrating to web forums down the road? Only time will tell.