Your phone number is tied to your identity, there are no reasons to ask it to begin with.

Signal is centralized and require a phone number to register, it’s not private at all.

Sort of agree but look how much he’s done for Linux gaming.

Let’s not forget that Steam is a proprietary third party launcher that doesn’t share any values with linux. Valve built the apple store of videogames, while they are now moving in a better direction keep in mind that they are part of the problem.

We are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform. Steam is closed as much as reddit is.

Promoting gambling to kids and use the profits to buy multiple mega yachts is peak scum.

Yes, their profits.

Minecraft is yet another example of no expections. Minecraft is proprietary and they never lowered the price even after making millions, they actually increased it. It was sold to one of the worst company in the world for even more money.

After making millions a normal person would have make the game publicly available or at last free and they wouldhave never sell it to microsoft.

They do what every for profit company in the world does, they try to make as much money as possible and they spend money in advertising.

Honestly, the secret is not being a publicly traded company.

Valve fortune doesn’t come from not being traded publicly. They built a nearly monopoly on pc videogames with their walled garden proprietary third party launcher.

His company is working damn hard to make sure you believe they don’t do nothing. All billionares are scum.

element

Top posts on this sub are currently about discord and nvidia…

Don’t use discord it’s like reddit

People won’t like it to hear but let’s face something: if your reasoning to keep using a proprietary system that violates your privacy and belong to a evil company is because you have to play videogames your intelligence and self control is that of a child.

I’m gonna add something nobody mentioned yet: you can easily get hundreds extra filters on gimp and krita by installing G’MIC (already installed in some version)

Also get your hands on blender and stable diffusion

ask Jason Citron

Did you actually read anything or are you just set to rage mode?

Yes, did you? They are trying to claim something as stupid as that discord doesn’t sell your data.

Discord is not as good and accessible as you may think. Most matrix homeservers aren’t going to ask you for phone verification, some don’t even require a mail. You can always join yourself and find other friends there.

You are here on lemmy on a linux sub trying to defend a proprietary company who makes billions stealing kids data. Take a break and think about what you are doing with your life.

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html

Calls and video chats works just fine in matrix and client like element allow you to integrate other services if you don’t like the default ones.

I’d definitely describe myself as a Discord power user

You sound a lot like someone who use windows. We are on a linux sub.

Show them the link and encourage them to move to better platforms

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/