AwesomeLowlander @ AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works

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There's an open issue in github with reproduction steps, not sure if you've seen it

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/2105

Especially since we've marked it by downvoting them to hell

Yeah, I run a hobby club with like 200 members in discord. Handling that in WhatsApp or signal would be such a pain.

Signal / WhatsApp are messengers, they're meant for 1 to 1 or small groups. They don't handle large groups well, for which you want things like rooms, roles, moderation, etc. Different niches.

Man, lemmy really believes in shooting the messenger

Remember to tell them to eat their veggies

Remind your wife that she married you for (or despite) your sense of humour

Only needs a couple thousand words more to be a feathery chicken story.

I was not aware there was a 'lemmy party line', especially considering the origins of lemmy and its devs

Yeah I get the downside of those. But I find it weird how so many people blast discord when it's just about the only option for simple modern text based chat groups

Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

Yeah, I looked into it at some point but it does not look suitable for big groups that include non techies.

Um. As a simple place for a group to chat and communicate via text?

Afaict, it doesn't really have any major competitors. No, if I have to self host, it's not a competitor

It's not like there's any actual alternative with decent UI that doesn't require self hosting or a subscription.

Most people are better off buying a lightly-used Mac (or not, it's been a while since people have been happy with Apple) or replacing their laptop with a Fairphone or Graphene OS phone than switching to Linux from Windows 10.

I don't really see the connection there with somebody bringing down their own firewall, hosting open services, and basically putting out the welcome mat. You can burn yourself on any OS (and if you can't, I don't want to be using or pushing it).

Best option is to just go to places where the wifi service is affordable but not free so that the operator needs to keep tabs on whether users are doing something other than browsing the internet or playing games

What place charges little enough for the WiFi to be affordable but has somebody live monitoring network traffic?

sporting and social clubs? Ew.

Like, WTF? Is there something wrong with social and hobby clubs?

I use discord extensively. I've been on lemmy for over a year. Heck, I'm on a server that got pulled together in lemmy. I've seen a lot of complaints about discord, but nobody's actually ever condemned me for using it.

Many people use it exclusively as text chat.

They've mastered Danish, though. Or at least the native speakers can't tell the difference.

https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk

That's the point, you don't have to. The system works on the assumption that the AP is untrusted.