Found another “new” discord clone called Kloak. Slightly curious as they claim to use purely a username and key to identify you and nothing else.

Some of the site seems AI generated and the project is entirely closed source. I am curious but I have my reservations even trying it.

Right now it appears registration is closed which is also odd.

https://kloak.app/

Might be worth keeping an eye on. But it might be worth entirely avoiding

I dont think we are ever going to see a third consumer level production phone with an alternative Linux based OS. There aren’t enough people out there in the main stream to make a product like this truly viable. Maybe Fairphone or a equivalent. But that’s a tall maybe. Definitely not a flagship level phone.

What’s more realistic is seeing graphine gain availability on more devices.

This is the one place I haven’t taken the plunge. My experience with Linux desktops over the years leaves me a little concerned being stuck without making calls in an emergency situation. I’m also using MVNOs and I worry they won’t be compatible with a different OS.

Not sure I follow what you mean by temperature? Socially I’d say it’s all over the place. You can make channels for whatever you like. To be transparent the only feature to me missing is streaming / screen share. And the mobile apps need a lot of work …

There is no flawless solution , that being said there is such thing as worse and even worse … to me Reddit is “even worse”. I’m only accountable for what I post and what I “vote” on and there I’ve got no problems. It’s nice to know here if there are trackers it’s not necessarily baked in. LLMs maybe reading what it can see but those LLMs aren’t determining how and what I’m doom scrolling. That’s what would bothers me.

And while I’m sure there are bad actors probably willing I still think the fediverse is to small to really garner a ton of effort to extort much of anything.

Completely subjective, I am just not a fan of the UI. I’ve been sticking with Librewolf. Tinkering with Orion on Mac. And I am keeping an eye on LadyBird

Very good catch. Honestly the platform is so small I doubt it will come under fire. Worse case if the platform takes off more can self host and completely avoid these requirements

I watched Girls Gone Wild for the story

In my eyes they are no different than Discord. They are a venture capital driven corporation who will use your data in the same manner. I like the added features for mmo clans. But that’s not enough to give up the privacy issue.

If you don’t have many concerns about privacy to start with then why not stick with Discord?

For straight up talk it works. UI is dated and I am not sure if you have to self host or not ?

Even stoat writes on their privacy policy they store everything you write on their servers. That if needed they will hand over what’s required of them as of GPDR compliancy.

Now if that analyze said data and sell it, that’s another thing entirely.

With both Stoat and Fluxer community audits should be done, if Fluxer has had AI generated code that opens up unforeseen risk.

Thanks for the heads up!

If you can remember please report in.

My dudes and dudettes , I’m blown away by the response. I’m going to be busy trying them all out. Thank you for the responses and I hope others found some good insight!

So you are surprised Facebook the company whose profit model is entirely ads is using data on WhatsApp to profit off ads?

No I don’t believe you.

May I recommend signal or stoat ? Or session ? Or so many better things.

You’ve given up on Reddit I assume enjoying the fediverse I think you try it with chat too