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Quoting: JarmerOMG I love this so much because it will destroy discord. YESSSSSS I ragehate discord so much so anything that takes measures to destroy it is the best thing ever.

Heh, while I don't hate Discord with the same fervor as you, I am certainly not a fan. Perhaps this'll end up encouraging more people to start adopting open platforms for online discussion, over corporate-controlled walled gardens! Though through the cynical eye of historical observation, I think it's more likely that the majority will just grumble about it and acquiesce anyway. Alas!

Quoting: Sakuretsu26.0 is really 2026-02-11 or is it 2026-03-11?

Quoting: GoEsrI'm left wondering when governments will come for Steam accounts. My account is over 18 years old, so maybe they'll implement the same system Nexus Mods did.

Quoting: BrandonGeneI hope this reverses the trend of open source devs using Discord as their development hangout places. A support forum is one thing (though still way worse than a real forum for documentation), but the actual development happening via Discord is terrible. "Think you've found a bug? Come tell us on Discord before opening a issue here!" - nope.

Quoting: BrokattGraham did say that while they felt Snap actually works "better than Flatpak in some ways"

Controversial opinion. I hope his mailbox is all right...

Jokes aside, I'm glad things are moving along for KDE Linux. It's not something I'm personally interested in, but I imagine it's great for KDE devs. Hopefully it's something one could recommend for those who are KDE curios (Kurious?). Maybe we'll even get to see some devices with it pre-installed in the future?

Quoting: JarmerNow comes the fun part: waiting to see where are the game devs go for their communities.

Quoting: williamjcmI've heard a few horror stories about Mattermost, especially from bot developers, and Element is just a client for Matrix, a chat protocol that's so focused on security that they forgot to implement safety features (like banning/muting accounts and servers).

Quoting: pbSure, but that's nothing something average people do which this will all affect. Although, as with a lot of these laws, they do end up pushing people to alternatives to find workarounds. It will be a never-ending battle.

Quoting: TheSHEEEP... but why?
Usually, malware has a specific purpose, monetary or data gathering or disrupting infrastructure.

This just messes with your mods and steam stats for a title.
Very annoying especially for modders, but beyond that I don't understand the motivation here.

Quoting: F.UltraWhich would be true even if the cut was 1%, so no it is not about the 30% itself. And as I have tried to explain before, the DMA is about lock-in and not some arbitrary cut. Which should be self explanatory since the EU have not went after Valve for their 30% cut on Steam, the DMA case against Valve is only about restricted cross-border sales with zero mentionings of the cut.

Quoting: mrdeathjrin other issues divinity 2 dont crash however cinematics work partially in my case with cinematics before main menu, using h264+mp3 magic (maybe more later try something, if remember good for other cinematics main problem stay related to audio, cinematics without audio track maybe work)

Quoting: JohnologueIs Matrix that bad? That's where I was hoping to direct some friends.

• You can't send media and text in a single message, so if you're in a decently-active channel, whatever image or video you're trying to post can easily end up separated from its context.


• Threads are a pain in the ass, especially if you're using an alternate client (for example, in NeoChat, threads are displayed alongside the channel's main messages as a series of replies). On top of that, you can't mark them as read individually (you have to mark the channel as unread then then mark it as read, which also comes with its fair share of bugs).


• Some of the markup is inconsistent, making it hard to use. Stuff like bold and italics and quotes is normal Markdown, but strikethrough text requires HTML-like tags for some goddamn reason.


• The search sucks a lot more than Discord's. It's much slower, and you can't use filters alongside keywords.


• The main channel I'm in has an official GitHub integration posting updates from GitHub repos, and the channel admin noted that setting the integration up required giving it *full* permissions, else it just wouldn't work. Also, for the record, pre-Matrix!Gitter had a dedicated sidebar for repo updates, instead of polluting the main chat like Matrix!Gitter's integration does.

Quoting: Shaddycat

Quoting: Liam DaweIt doesn't really matter what alternatives there are - anything chat / social media will end up having to use these types of controls. Otherwise, they will end up getting blocked by various governments.

I disagree. Self-hosted platforms are basically impossible to control in this way. I would like to see the government come for MY Mumble server. Libera already issued a statement saying that the odds of them requiring age verification is incredibly slim. And even if it did, somebody can just spin up a new IRC network that hasn't had the restriction imposed on it yet.

It doesn't have to be this way. The mistake is using centralized non-user owned platforms.

The Discord team highlighted their privacy protections for all this as:
* On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.