whatsapp-for-linux VS abaddon

Before that I was using WhatsApp for Linux, but it's a wrapper around a Chrome web app, I think, and I like my links to open in Firefox.

I'm trying to build Whatsapp-for-Linux following instructions, but I can't seem to be able to do it because I can't find one of the dependencies: ayatana-appindicator3-0.1

You can use whatsapp-for-linux, should be in the official manjaro repos if I remember correctly. Alternatively there is a package in the aur

I created a GTK based whatsapp client for linux. Here; https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux.

Can't you just install linux unofficial client? Both are pretty much electron wrappers https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux

Discord https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon

Here you go.

Sadly no, but its more privacy respecting than the regular client for sure. FOSS options include: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4 https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon https://github.com/terminal-discord/weechat-discord (weechat plugin to use Discord within weechat) https://github.com/evelyneee/accord (seems to be for M1 macs) https://github.com/ArmCord/ArmCord (seems to support AMD64, not just Arm64) https://github.com/khlam/discord-sandboxed (sandboxing for standard discord client) There are others I'm sure. One easier option is to run the Discord code in a newer version of Electron. This still isn't open source, but it provides better security and performance. Arch users can use the AUR package discord_arch_electron, other users can just follow the commands in the PKGBUILD for said package and figure it out. Hope that helps. Keep in mind even if your client is open source, Discord's servers aren't, and while there will be some mitigation of data collected, it'll still be quite a bit.