Ah good, this was one of the few GTK apps that I couldn't get rid of.
Damn, never doubt their power.
I have the theme set to "Classic" and it just uses my Qt5ct theme.
The future is probably going to be:
- Whitelist federation models with invite-only instances.
- Anubis and similar software being a base requirement for operation.
- Getting creative with stuff like picture-based logic puzzles as a type of captcha.
- A retreat into less publicly visible spaces like chat apps that you can only get access to through networking.
Yeah, and with the corporate culture that MBAs bring with them, they also tend to make everything as boring and sterile as possible since any degree of fun and personality could be seen as off-putting to a hypothetical person.
Hm, hopefully Discord takes awhile to enshittify. Sounds like the current solutions need time to polish up.
I did find out recently that the team behind the Element Matrix client made Element Call and integrated it into their apps recently, but I've never used it personally. Have you used it? How was it?
They definitely got the Discord aesthetic down. Unfortunately, it seems to be both self-hostable and unfederated, which means that the userbase is going to be split up between a bunch of small and quiet instances with no convenient way to interact with the larger ecosystem. Their FAQ suggests that while it's not in the roadmap currently, they're still open to the idea, so maybe we should let them know that this would be a desirable thing.
Oh? When did they change that?
And so the hell-loop continues. Matrix seems like the closest successor, but having used it for awhile I would describe the experience as janky-but-workable. Signal's good, but requires a phone number. I hear that Mumble's good, but it's overly focused on VoIP. Hopefully the alternatives polish themselves up before the enshittification gets too bad.
I use what's packaged in my distro's repositories, unless I need a specific version, or the software isn't packaged at all.
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LibreWolf is just a patch set for Firefox. The user settings are stored in the profile folder, so if you just copy your old profile over, you will overwrite most of LibreWolf's changes. The about:support page contains a list of your changed about:config settings, so copy those down and move them over to your new LibreWolf profile as needed.
Of course, you could also just disable the AI crap yourself in vanilla Firefox if you don't want to part with your current profile.