cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26986197

Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux’s permission prompts

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    Element is a messenger and will never have the UX of Discord. There is Revolt, which is actually similar to discord but self-hostable

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      02 months ago

      Has screen sharing a video calls and group calls and working on addons/extensions, not sure what more people would expect from a project of its size

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        12 months ago

        from a project of its size

        Ok but you know that people don’t care about this part at all when they’re looking for alternatives to actually use, right?

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            02 months ago

            To some, convenience matters more than intangible benefits. This is not necessarily dumb.

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                  12 months ago

                  I wouldn’t call having more privacy as intangible. Everyones heard of the stories where someone sends some dickpick to a “girl” on some chatroulette app or whatever and ball of a sudden they’re sending them screenshots of all their family members’ Facebook accounts threatening to leak . same shit goes for pollution and stuff like that, the then “intangible” benefits of being wary of wtf we burn and throw into nature and wilderness are now more obvious than ever with global warming being a growing problem. Intangible doesn’t mean nonexistent and if one can’t realize that they’re simply dumb and shortsighted

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                    Ok, that’s true. But what I’m saying is that you aren’t considering the value of convenience and user experience at all. It’s possible for those benefits to outweigh the downsides.

                    Also encryption wouldn’t prevent your first example

                    I would also argue that it’s “dumb and shortsighted” to not care about user experience, because then you lose the users and they go back to the unencrypted environmentally-disastrous service.