Pretty much what it says on the tin, but for more context. My friends and I use Discord to play D&D and other TTRPGs. We also use it to send memes and just have conversations. We mostly do the chat, text, images, gifs, etc. But we also use the voice and video chat pretty regularly too. Screen share sometimes as well. So I’d like to try to find something that has all those features if possible.

The new ID or facial recognition requirement they are implementing is a deal breaker for a few of us, and so if I can set up some kind of alternative to make it a non-issue, I’d like to.

I’m running Ubunutu 22.04 LETS, AMD 3700X, 64GBRAM, 10x 6TB HDD, and and 2 4TB NVmE. Have a 2gb up/down internet connection. So I don’t think we should have any issues making it work smoothly for 7 people.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

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  • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    10 days ago

    The main issue is you’ll never get the cretins that use it off it. Communities… they’re just sitting there burning the library of alexandria… all the esoteric knowledge they’re “putting on discord” is just gonna vanish.

    over a billion in vc funding and discord is as shit as it is.

    • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Call them cretins all you want, Discord in a great piece of software and very powerful. The usability is better than most others.

      • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Its a usability and information discoverability is a nightmare and its continuously probing my system in ways that I don’t want it to.

        The usability is complete and total ass unless you’ve grown up knowing no better.

        Edit: Also, its full of toxic ass communities with stupid little kingdoms they’ve set up.