I still use reddit for purposes ranging from getting solutions to pastimes. Same for discord. There are a few communities on it that I need to be connected, most notably dev related.
What suggestions would you guys make? Are there any bridges/frontend I could use to get more privacy?
An example of such a DIY container would be: Alpine base + Librewolf + Script to install necessary extensions in Librewolf and configure them + Guacamole as a VNC server. Or maybe just configuring X-forwarding (does that work with Podman) will do.
i think it only halted development, not shut down. i've heard one of the contributors wants to revive the project though. libreddit still works fine if you self-host it and you're the only one using it, but not on public instances. self-hosting is easy tho, just download the latest release binary and run it in a terminal or something.
I haven't used it personally, but there is a discord matrix bridge. You wouldn't get some of the fancy features like voice, but it might be alright for text only.
Unless you can convince the server mods to bridge directly, you'd probably want a puppet bridge.
I'm on a few servers with bridges and one unfortunate thing is occasionally they'll go neglected and disconnect then you'll be stuck in an unmoderated community with other Matrix users
I wouldn't recommend a normal bridged room, just a puppet bridge. So it'd basically be the bridge using your own account and pretending to be a real client, not trying to bridge a matrix room with a discord channel.
Puppet bridges are kind of like bitlbee if youre familiar with it, but for matrix
I gave up discord a week or two ago but when I used it, I only used the online version on Firefox in a container. I think Ublock Origin blocks most of the science API things too!
Example: https://discord.com/api/v9/science
For reddit I use Libreddit selfhosted instance on baremetal..for discord I use goofcord,its an foss discord client that allows vencord modding which allows customization and tracking blocking
I just isolate Discord on Brave browser with all the settings privacyguides recommend (minus the cookie thing since I want to keep my account logged in)
I like to be part in the discussions in the topics that I'm interested in, or at least just read people's opinions. I already don't use any other social media, and am not very social irl due to circumstances. Your suggestion would ensure that I turn into a hermit, and might as well live under a rock.
lol the absolutism of people in privacy communities can be really be so unhelpful and tonedeaf at times
For discord there’s a couple things that can increase privacy to some degree, OpenAsar has some options related to privacy and tracking and will speed up load times, no clue how effective the anti-tracking feature is though. You could also use modded or 3rd party clients, I remember hearing about Powercord back when I used discord more and Replugged seems to be the continuation of that project. I also remember hearing of clients that basically simplifies the app to an IRC client with a super basic gui, I’ll edit if I remember the name