I still use reddit for purposes ranging from getting solutions to pastimes. Same for discord. There are a few communities on it that I need to be connected, most notably dev related.
What suggestions would you guys make? Are there any bridges/frontend I could use to get more privacy?
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I haven’t used it personally, but there is a discord matrix bridge. You wouldn’t get some of the fancy features like voice, but it might be alright for text only.
Unless you can convince the server mods to bridge directly, you’d probably want a puppet bridge.
I’m on a few servers with bridges and one unfortunate thing is occasionally they’ll go neglected and disconnect then you’ll be stuck in an unmoderated community with other Matrix users
I wouldn’t recommend a normal bridged room, just a puppet bridge. So it’d basically be the bridge using your own account and pretending to be a real client, not trying to bridge a matrix room with a discord channel.
Puppet bridges are kind of like bitlbee if youre familiar with it, but for matrix
I gave up discord a week or two ago but when I used it, I only used the online version on Firefox in a container. I think Ublock Origin blocks most of the science API things too! Example: https://discord.com/api/v9/science
Devs are usually technical enough to understand privacy. Have you tried suggesting a switch to matrix or simplex?
It’s a learning community, with possibly thousands of participants. The server mods won’t switch from discord for this reason
One can bring horse to water.
I know the saying, but I don’t understand the benefit of your comment. If you say the horse is me, the only way it works is I give up my access to the learning community. If the mean the discord admins/mods, they’re still working on scripts for discord bots, so no they won’t be switching anytime soon. The server is Odin Project btw, and the size of new users won’t let them switch.
Worry not! The horse in this case is them. You can show them a better way, but can’t force them to take it :)
For reddit I use Libreddit selfhosted instance on baremetal…for discord I use goofcord,its an foss discord client that allows vencord modding which allows customization and tracking blocking
It is called a web search. I use DuckDuckGo. Most things are already answered. One should only waste people’s time with a question once they have made a good faith effort.
For me, rarely do I need to ask a question and if I do it is usually too hard and I get nothing anyway.
Already looked up privacyguides to no avail for my specific use case. You can save your time by simply not interacting with any post you don’t like, since you wouldn’t know if the poster made a good-faith attempt to find info and couldn’t find it.
For me, rarely do I need to ask a question and if I do it is usually too hard and I get nothing anyway.
It’s amazing that your already know the result to your future questions. I don’t, since I’m human.
You take me wrong. Not saying your question is a bad question. You ask what I do when I have a software dev question or other similar questions.
Software in particular but for many topics a web search leads you to the answer. If not that, then a more particular search of Wikipedia or alternativeto.net for example. Lot of these searches lead to familiar places some of course Reddit included though not that common for really good software dev answers. Software stuff is very well documented this way too. Source code, documentation, discussions … literally anything. I generally work my way back. In the end one can just read the source though we all try to avoid that.
You asked about a bridge. Search is the bridge. If I actually needed some direction from someone else I would find a specific forum or the actual dev community for that specific piece of software but only after I had put in the up front work.
So my answer was a serious one. Encouraging a way of thinking.
By the way, another approach is AI. It can act as another interface and entry as long as you do not plan to take it too seriously. AI can give a great summary and sound really authoritative but be very wrong in crazy ways. So useful but not an end point.
@gc_ Just don’t.
I like to be part in the discussions in the topics that I’m interested in, or at least just read people’s opinions. I already don’t use any other social media, and am not very social irl due to circumstances. Your suggestion would ensure that I turn into a hermit, and might as well live under a rock.
lol the absolutism of people in privacy communities can be really be so unhelpful and tonedeaf at times
For discord there’s a couple things that can increase privacy to some degree, OpenAsar has some options related to privacy and tracking and will speed up load times, no clue how effective the anti-tracking feature is though. You could also use modded or 3rd party clients, I remember hearing about Powercord back when I used discord more and Replugged seems to be the continuation of that project. I also remember hearing of clients that basically simplifies the app to an IRC client with a super basic gui, I’ll edit if I remember the name