Totally agree with OP, this also works with different editors like Helix.

your late to the party

I mean I am not sure, but in matrix you can just “reply” to a comment in a chat room and therefore create a thread? In discord you can have whole “chatrooms” be transfered to discussion only with threads. I am not sure about the terminology but it looks very different to me. Basically, you can set Discord up like a community board etc.

I agree, but working on an alternative an cultivating it could be a good start. Look at mastodon or lemmy.

No, matrix is still very focused on chat room sadly and for the video conferencing you need to use jitsi as far as I am aware, at least thats how we’ve set it up at work. The thread function in discord is much better actually.

Not in my bubble, chats create insurmountable loads of noise. By focusing on threads you get the discussion much more focused and streamlined. Example: Most of my discords are ttrpg related, where with the usage of bots games are scheduled. Or where discussion are happening around certain ttrpg systems.

I agree that a lot of discord servers focus on chat rooms. But you could retain that by simply having 1-2 chatrooms per server and structure/direct conversations to dedicated threads/voice chats instead.

Again this is just MY view. I am totally aware that other people, use it differently.

We would have to sit down and actually think what an opensource solution can achieve and how it gets traction. Also from the get go it should be clear that there will be no feature parity between it and discord. If it was me, I would cut out the whole chatroom functionality, leave private messaging in, use threaded conversations as a standard and but a decent videocall system on top. But this would be my version of it, other people have other needs.

For the video call system you would not have to reinvent the wheel, use something existing like Jitsi (?) or alternatives. Then you would

Maybe the best bet is to look at matrix and wrench out the chatroom focus and replace it with threads?

Teamspeak is no alternative to discord. Sorry. Also its not even open source, is it?

who in their sane mind uses zoom on their private device. holy molly

Lets create an alternative.

So what about FreeBSD? And did you read up on Flatpak having security issues because the containerization is supposedly not sufficient?

Welcome to the dark side! Although I am curious how long you will stay with QubesOS… I have the feeling its overkill for non-snowden use-cases. Also it would be interesting why you went from OpenBSD directly to Linux and didn’t take freebsd into consideration? Or if you tried, what made your decision to go for Linux instead?

kek if true

Most of them are, thats not the point.

I don’t understand people compaing a mesh network to simple wireguard. It is not the same.

China wants so see all our clients browser history in order for their secret AI to produce exactly what we want to buy next as cheap and fast as possible. World domination secured.

Don’t try. The amount of politics on that topic is a waste of time.

I haven’t seen the contract between google and firefox.

Maybe “how you develop the software” is a bit far-fetched, I was more thinking about decide where to put efforts into e.g.: continue developing Firefox’s core mechanic of being a privacy oriented webbrowser instead of… whatever they are doing with the funding they get.

But thats exactly how they work currently? Google is the default search engine in firefox.

Feels kind of weird, if thats the case how did Linux come as far as it is today?