unexposedhazard
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- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 5 hours ago:
Well to me it just sounds like they were doing target practice on random stuff lol
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 6 hours ago:
Ok so terminology wise:
- Discord Server = Matrix Space
- Discord DM = Matrix Chat (these usually exist separately from Spaces/Servers)
- Discord chat room = Matrix Room
- Discord video/voice channels = Matrix Video Room (these still have an optional text chat FYI)
If you just want to create something resembling a discord server, you first create a Space.
You can decide if it should be public or private (public = anyone with the address can join / private = invite only)Then you add rooms to it, normal rooms for text channels and video rooms for voice/video channels. During the creation of each of these rooms (or after) you decide if they should be visible to all space members, or be invite only (think mod channels).
Afterwards just invite people to the Space and they will be able to join the rooms you set up.
There are 3 predefined permission levels: Default, Moderator, Admin but you can also define numeric power levels for more fine grained control over what people can do. You can set permissions for users on the Space level and on the room level separately. So you can give someone mod powers for the entire Space or only for a single room.
Some more details:
All of the different types of rooms can exist completely separate from Servers/Spaces or be part of them. The only purpose of Spaces is to create a sort of umbrella that these can all be grouped under. New people can then join the Space and automatically get access to the all the rooms that the Space/Server admin wants them to have access to. So in practice you will have a bunch of personal DMs or group chats that exist on their own, basically like any other instant messenger like Signal or WhatsApp. And then if you have a larger community that requires some more structure you can create a Space, to which you then add whatever rooms you need. There is a lot of flexibility to this however. Unlike with discord, all rooms exist completely on their own, they arent actually tied to a space. So you can detach a room from a space and attach it to another. You can also add preexisting rooms to a new Space.
So if you have a group chat with your gaming buddies, but at some point decide you want to expand your group and want to create a Space with multiple rooms, you can just add your original group chat to the newly created space. - Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 10 hours ago:
I love this genre of youtube videos.
Similar to the vibe of www.youtube.com/channel/UCwkDQ8tE_3UhB8LcnvUv0Fw
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 13 hours ago:
To me the main issue right now is history sharing in encrypted rooms being non functional. At the moment when you invite someone new to an encrypted room, they wont be able to read the historic messages in it, even if you toggled that on. They are working on it and its probably not super far away, but currently you basically have to use unencrypted rooms if you want new people to be able to see old messages.
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 13 hours ago:
Ooh nice to see, thanks for the link. Once all the major matrix clients support livekit, matrix will be much more recommendable imo. Element works okay, but it really is insanely bloated when you look at what other clients achieve with less than 1/10th of the application size.
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 13 hours ago:
FluffyChat from my testing just now only supports the legacy 1:1 p2p calls not the new element-call system that supports large group calls and performs much better. I dont think cinny supports element-call either if i look at their changelogs from the last year.
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 14 hours ago:
Grrreeeat. CBP casually out here committing terrorism. Imagine if they accidentally shot at a commercial aircraft o.o
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 16 hours ago:
Ive been using it for many years now. Do you have any specific questions that i might be able to answer?
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 16 hours ago:
I was immediately gonna comment “but does it support element-call” and to my surprise:
Supporting both, 1:1 calls over WebRTC, and voice channels with MatrixRTC + LiveKit
So to my knowledge this is the first non elenent fork client that supports the new call systen 🎉
- Comment on what a drag 16 hours ago:
Old but still funny
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
This is like 20 lines of code, so shouldnt take long to verify for someone that knows what they are doing.
- Comment on Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method? 1 day ago:
Idk but apparently the dev of tuwunel was a dick about the fork splitting.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 1 day ago:
Im confused by this list. It includes the matrix server implementations synapse and continuwuity, but not matrix itself or any of its clients. The only matrix client that could reasonably replace discord is element but its not even there.
- Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord 1 day ago:
The initial release was literally 7 HOURS ago so its not really recommendable yet at all. Idk why it keeps getting spammed here today.
Stoat has been around for 5 years and used to be called Revolt until recently.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoat_(software)
Neither are e2ee or federated so not particularly future proof or enshittification resistant unless you self host (which most people dont…)
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 1 day ago:
Ah damn so it requires an app. Sadge :(
I want one that has a “home base” like this that just works without my phone and serves a local webinterface that i can access from my computer/phone. That would allow you to VPN into you home network to access it remotely.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 1 day ago:
I see. I havent selfhosted any matrix servers yet, so i havent looked into it too much. I know that there are a few server implementations besides synapse that are mature and stable (and supposedly much more resource efficient) and they do support docker deployment.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 1 day ago:
Yeah i realized that now :)
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 1 day ago:
Im talking about message content, images, contact networks, behavioural patterns, etc.
All that can be inferred from just the serverside data even if the client sends only whats necessary.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 1 day ago:
I admit i mostly use matrix as an instant messenger, but it works fine for when i need comms with my friends while gaming or when i want to share my screen for something. Sure it still has some jank to it, but if you look at how janky it used to be even just a year ago, the trajectory is pretty clear to me.
I havent used discord for like 8 years, because i simply dont need all the random features that discord has, but maybe thats just me.
- Comment on Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Warns Of World ‘In Peril’ In Resignation 1 day ago:
Its kind of an obvious outcome if you combine the concept of automation bias with the hallucinations produced by LLMs. They really are perfect misinformation and confusion machines.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 1 day ago:
That wouldnt even help much. The issue is them being in control of the servers and that its not e2ee. Even if the client is open source, they still get all the data and control.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 1 day ago:
Also completely new with no other contributors. Stay the fuck away from this until its been in development for a while and someone reviewed the code.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 1 day ago:
then you can use matrix
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 1 day ago:
Can you share the model? People were asking me about this recently and said that there are no good alternatives to ring.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 days ago:
Yeah but real time communication is not what this comment was about. The issues is that its being used as a social hub that replaces forums entirely. So when people ask questions about a topic they will do so in some shitty discord channel and the information (both question and answer) will be lost in the un-searchable, un-taggable, un-indexable discord black hole.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 days ago:
So sad to see things literally get worse for no good reason.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 days ago:
Discord really is a plague for the open internet yep
- Comment on King 'ready to support' police as they assess Andrew claims over Epstein 2 days ago:
Fuckin piece of shit. He could have acknowledged the whole Epstein situation before Trump got into power. There is no way he hasnt known already for years and it might have actually made a difference. This is all way too late.
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 4 days ago:
I assumed that they also drill through the concrete layer in between, but if its a US house i guess there is no concrete.
- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 5 days ago:
Reminder to actually download and archive all the game files you bought on gog. They might not be there for much longer.
