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Just a reminder of all the websites and apps we have groups on you can join to keep track of our news, and some let you post and chat away in yourselves! There's something for everyone here.

Telegram For the slightly more privacy concerned (and it's just lovely)
Channel (for our news): https://telegram.me/linuxgaming
SuperGroup (anyone can join and post in): https://telegram.me/linux_gaming

Google+ For the people keeping G+ alive
Our page (for our news): https://plus.google.com/+Gamingonlinux
Group (anyone can post in): https://plus.google.com/communities/113630288541740437071

Twitter Probably our most popular and most followed place!
https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux

Discord It's the new hip thing, haven't you heard?
https://discord.gg/0rxBtcSOonvGzXr4

IRC For the oldskool
#gamingonlinux on freenode (or our web IRC)

Facebook For the rest of you
https://www.facebook.com/gamingonlinux/

Steam I always forget we have this
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamingonlinux

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Sbrega82 Mar 27, 2016
a 40k users social network isn't so mandatory. Cut out the non-english speakers (seems to be a lot due to the fact that the two bigger servers are german) I think the minimal effort to keep the page up to date isn't worth.
Shmerl Mar 27, 2016
Where did you get the 40k number? It's more than 600k (I already gave the link above on statistics: https://the-federation.info ). Also, what's "mandatory"? If you care about FOSS and not supporting those who use your information for profit, then use diaspora*, not FB or G+. For those who don't care that's of course irrelevant. In my understand social network should be a communication tool, not a tool to harvest people's profiles. Therefore it has to be decentralized to avoid such pitfalls.
Xpander Mar 28, 2016
Quoting: GoboThunderbird has an IRC interface as well! As for standalone: XChat.


Xchat is dead (since 2011), no development
HexChat is the thing now, started from where XChat was left


Last edited by Xpander on 28 March 2016 at 4:18 am UTC
lucifertdark Mar 28, 2016
Telegram isn't secure, the people who want to control our entire lives already have their claws deep into that piece of software & can eavesdrop any time they like, avoid it like the plague.
Liam Dawe Mar 28, 2016
Quoting: lucifertdarkTelegram isn't secure, the people who want to control our entire lives already have their claws deep into that piece of software & can eavesdrop any time they like, avoid it like the plague.
Ive seen people say that, but no one can ever back it up.
kokoko3k Mar 28, 2016
i'm unable to join telegram channel linux_gaming, is it locked?
HadBabits Mar 28, 2016
Quoting: lucifertdarkhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/23/homebrew_crypto_in_telegram_app/

https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/auth_key

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a#.99hy8plvi

I appreciate the info, but I never used their crypto in the first place, just regular chat o3o Even though I advocate for privacy, I'm more concerned with getting legislation passed to prevent such invasions in the first place, rather than worry if my specific conversations with my girlfriend is encrypted.

Whatever your reason for securing your communications, I respect that. However, outside of that, Telegram is a fantastic program for those just concerned with talking to each other.
loggfreak Mar 28, 2016
i really don't understand why the f*** people use pidgin for IRC, it's horrible
use a dedicated Client for IRC, like HexChat
Liam Dawe Mar 28, 2016
Quoting: lucifertdarkhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/23/homebrew_crypto_in_telegram_app/

https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/auth_key

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a#.99hy8plvi

All of that tells me one thing: Telegram is still secure, and hasn't been broken. I am using it for the useful features more than anything.

Anyway, we are going way offtopic ;)
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