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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 8 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] astrionic@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s not the privacy of the content we’re discussing, it’s the horrible Discord client that keeps datamining your PC. It even inspects all the processes.

I agree that Discord isn't a good choice for FOSS projects for various reasons including privacy, but can't you just use the web client to avoid that specific issue?

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

I don't really want to sign up to their T&C's, but I did in the past. But their web client is really annoying, it's constantly blocking me and kicking me out and giving captcha's. Probably I have too many ad/tracking blockers :P

But again, with a real FOSS ecosystem you wouldn't have to worry about such skullduggery because there is no tracking to block.