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Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I'm a bit salty this was apparently announced through Discord. Was it even posted anywhere else?

The future of social media is fragmented siloes, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... even worse, it appears the admin didn't even announce it, this is just one of the developers clarifying what the admin probably did.

As someone who uses Ryujinx, I literally spent the afternoon curious about an error I was getting while updating about the build server being down "probably because it's building a new version, check back in a few minutes", only to find a Twitter screenshot of this linked in slack that evening.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Twitter screenshot of this linked in slack that evening.

The modern internet in a nutshell, lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I will never not be pissed off that the overwhelming majority of communities that made the internet vibrant especially when nerding out about niche stuff just happily moved to discord and foreclosed their futures.

Everytime I get down on the fediverse I think about what discord did to online communities I loved and I get fired up again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I think eventually if a federated system (or particular server) gets too popular they will just defederate from everyone else and perpetuate the same problem all over again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is a big part of why I stopped using discord recently. Not yet sure of any alternatives but leaving is step one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Matrix.

And... Lemmy.

It doesn't matter though, the problem is the critical mass is migrating to Discord and shunting everything out of view. Honestly that's much worse than being on Reddit, even now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Matrix does not have seamless desktop sharing or voice chat, and has a drastically higher executive cost. It also does not solve the information silo issue.

The fediverse as a whole is promising but likely needs to mature a bit longer. Theres a lot of potential issues that have yet to be worked through.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have an issue with many different communications platforms if they didn't all require an account (also Discord not being indexable sucks).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Discord is even worse, as you need to find an invite to a specific Discord, and sometimes go through a lengthy sign up process for each Discord.

Some won't let you sign up without a phone #.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, why don't they send an owl to each interested party?

Some of us like to be contacted via cute and fluffy snow owls...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

You are a wizard Joe!...

...but an average one.